Creation: A Short Story

Creation: A Short Story

by Ryne Douglas Pearson
Creation: A Short Story

Creation: A Short Story

by Ryne Douglas Pearson

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Overview

Note: Creation is a short story (approximately 7,900 words), and is included in the collection Dark and Darker. If you own Dark and Darker, you already have this story.


'The Lieutenant eyed Derek hard for a moment before opening the envelope and letting the contents slide out. A photograph, eight by ten, the stranger laying askew in a parking lot somewhere, head and body separated by about two feet, a blackish pool spread between the two parts that made one man.'


In the riveting story by screenwriter (Knowing) and novelist (Simple Simon, Confessions, and more) Ryne Douglas Pearson, painter Derek Devine thinks he knows what art is. But a visit from a dangerous stranger, who looks uncannily like a subject in one of Derek's older paintings, leads the young artist to a place where the line between life and art seems not to exist at all.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940152150513
Publisher: Schmuck & Underwood
Publication date: 09/30/2010
Sold by: Draft2Digital
Format: eBook
File size: 199 KB

About the Author

Ryne Douglas Pearson is an accomplished novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of several novels, including Cloudburst, October's Ghost, Capitol Punishment, Simple Simon, Top Ten, The Donzerly Light, All For One, and Confessions. He is also the author of the short story collection, Dark and Darker. His works have been translated into Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, German, Polish, French and other languages. His novel Simple Simon was made into the film Mercury Rising. As a screenwriter he has worked on numerous movies. The film Knowing, based on his original script, was released in 2009 and opened #1 at the box office. Receiving Four Stars from Roger Ebert, who branded it 'among the best science-fiction films I've seen', it went on to earn more than $180 million worldwide. He has also done uncredited work on films such as the remakes of The Day The Earth Stood Still and The Eye.

Despite the often 'dark' nature of his novels and films, Pearson has been noted to have a 'sweet, disarming quality' by Entertainment Weekly-an accusation he has been unable to shake. When not writing he is usually thinking about writing, or touting the wonders of bacon in online conversations. He is addicted to diet soda and the sound of his children laughing. A west coast native, he lives in California with his wife, children, a Doberman Kelpie and a Beagle Vizsla.

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