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Since my short story "Club 27" has now published in Schlock! magazine, I'm free to put it on my blog. But, since I'd rather you read the full story at their website here , I'm just going to be posting a little teaser. Enjoy!   As the fog grew ever thicker around his Mercedes, Jack McCracken had to admit he was utterly lost somewhere in the San Bernardino Mountains. “What the fuck?” he muttered to himself as he took a long, nervous drag on his cigarette. “Where the fuck am I?”  Jack slowed his car to a crawl and leaned forward towards the windshield as if that would help him peer through the gray mists completely obscuring his view of the road. Jack had gotten off Route 15 while driving back to Los Angeles at Cajon Junction to use the bathroom, but rather than getting back on the same route he’d somehow missed it and instead continued along Route 138 higher into the mountains. He wondered how he could have been so distracted to miss the onramp as he took anoth...

The reader and book-centered website Literary Express recently interviewed me and, in a particularly nice touch, published the interview on Halloween (which, if you haven't explored their site by now, please do so; if you like reading, books, and the creative process, you won't be disappointed!). As is always the case in interviews, some of the raw material had to be edited due to space limitations, so I thought it might be interesting to publish the full interview here. That way you can see the entirety of my answers.  Enjoy, and thanks once again to Literary Express for featuring me! How long have you been writing? Before I answer this straightforward question, let me explain a few things. Antonio Ricardo Scozze is a pseudonym I write under. Unlike most pen names, however, I use it because he is actually a character in the overarching stories I'm writing. His own story will slowly unfold as these stories go on. Ultimately what I'm trying to create is a cohesive, com...