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    Dying With Her Name In Lights
    Dying With Her Name In Lights
    Dying With Her Name In Lights
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    Dying With Her Name In Lights

    By Shannon Muir

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    A collection of short tales looking at the dark side of fame and its deadly consequences, presented by THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF SHORTS FROM THE SHELF as part of SHANNON MUIR'S THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF website.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShannon Muir
    Release dateJan 6, 2019
    ISBN9780463748619
    Dying With Her Name In Lights
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    Shannon Muir

    SHANNON MUIR's short stories include suspense and mystery elements such as those found in her first full-length story from Pro Se Press, CHARLES BOECKMAN PRESENTS DOC AND SALLY IN "THE DEATH OF BUDDY TURNER". Additionally, she's written short stories for Pro Se Press such as “Tragic Like a Torch Song” in THE DAME DID IT from Pro Se Press, "Pretty as a Picture" in the anthology NEWSHOUNDS, “Tropical Terror” in CRIME DOWN ISLAND and “Hidden History” in EXPLORER PULP. She’s also written the Single Shot New Pulp tale “Ghost of the Airwaves,” a short story offered in electronic format only from Pro Se Press.From her personal self-published projects, her best known titles in this area include the rural crime series THE WILLOWBROOK SAGA.In other genres, Shannon's published short stories include “Meeting the Monster” in the Emby Press anthology SUPERHERO MONSTER HUNTER: THE GOOD FIGHT and "Cover Story" in ARIA KALSAN: MYSTERIES OF THE FUTURE.Shannon holds a BA in Radio-TV and English from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, which she considers to be her hometown. She also holds an MA in Communications from California State University, Fullerton, along with additional education in screenwriting, project management, library technician studies, and most recently a certificate earned with distinction in General Business with Emphasis in Marketing from UCLA Extension. Currently, she is working on a Masters of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University.She is married to FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY collaborator and fellow author Kevin Paul Shaw Broden. They live in California in the United States.She is a member of Sisters in Crime (national, Guppies, and Los Angeles, where she also served on the Los Angeles board for a two terms beginning in 2018), as well as the Toastmasters4Writers Chapter of Toastmasters International (where she serves as chapter Secretary), Women in Animation, and a Professional member of ASIFA-Hollywood.

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      Dying With Her Name In Lights - Shannon Muir

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      COPYRIGHT

      DYING WITH HER NAME IN LIGHTS:

      AN ANTHOLOGY OF TALES ON THE DARK SIDE OF FAME

      A PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF SHORTS FROM THE SHELF COLLECTION

      Written by Shannon Muir

      Smashwords Edition

      Collection Copyright 2019 Shannon Muir.

      First Smashwords publication January 2019.

      Includes the stories Tabloid Twist and Confessions" first released on Goodreads December 2017.

      This ebook is for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be given away or resold to others. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy from Smashwords or a vendor partner. If you want to share this work with others please purchase a copy for each person. Thank you for respecting the hard work of artists and creators.

      All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      COPYRIGHT

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      HOMETOWN HERO

      DEADLY BEAUTY

      BEYOND THE SHINING STARS

      CONFESSIONS

      TABLOID TWIST

      DYING WITH HER NAME IN LIGHTS

      ALSO BY SHANNON MUIR – THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      Welcome to a series of short stories, some of which are new to this collection, and others have appeared elsewhere. Beyond the Shining Stars kicked off SHORTS FROM THE SHELF as a regular feature on SHANNON MUIR’S THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF, but it started out as a serial on a Tumblr site several years earlier that I finally completed; it actually ties in with another story, First Deadly Hollywood Break, that appears in THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF: MY INTRODUCTION TO MYSTERY AND GENRE FICTION. Confessions and Tabloid Twist originally appeared on Goodreads, but are now available here for non-members. Deadly Beauty follows up on another short story I wrote in one of my earliest e-book collections, entitled Runaway from the Runway, where I pursued what logical tragic next steps for those characters might be. Hometown Hero and the title story Dying with Her Name in Lights are both completely new to this collection with no related tie-ins.

      I hope you enjoy the variety of takes in this anthology of tales on the dark side of fame.

      Shannon Muir

      Glendale, California

      January 2019

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      HOMETOWN HERO

      So what'll it be tonight? Ada Browne asked the dirty, unkempt stranger in front of her. Ada knew the owner and manager of the struggling diner would want this fellow's rear tossed out of the diner immediately. Even with the greasy scent lingering everywhere that permeated clothes and hair so that any visitor left smelling like the joint, the manager and owner insisted on a definite need to keep things classy. They struggled to do anything possible to keep the customers, who were going off to newer restaurants opening in the area, forgetting about the first restaurant in town that just celebrated a milestone anniversary. At least that was the story management told.

      Ada, however, was no dummy. Times were tough, and less people could afford the luxury of eating at their restaurant. Less customers meant the prices went up to compensate, bringing in even less of a crowd. Sometimes, those that came to get a bite to eat or

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