Used people blow into Vegas to get caught amid the casinos like trash on a fence. Used old men who clean up graveyards at night with a bottle always in reach, used little girls who lose their clothes in dim yellow spotlights, used Elvises with more stories in their pasts than in their futures. The mysteries that bring them together are simple and mundane — and worth a fortune.
(short story)
Cindie Geddes is a Reno-based writer whose credits include more than a dozen short stories, two poems, a few essays, a bunch of ghostwritten nonfiction books, more than 300 articles, and a big bunch of editing (magazines, short stories, and books). She is co-owner of Lucky Bat Books, a company designed to empower writers to tell their stories in their own ways on their own terms. Her alter ego, CC Geddes, also writes about fear, blood and the dark side of the human spirit.