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Aaron is not a man on a hero's journey. In the question of fight or flight, he'll choose flight every time. So when a car accident leaves him suddenly asymmetrical, his left arm amputated, looking on the bright side just isn't something he's equipped to do. Forced to return to his boyhood home to recuperate, Aaron is confronted with an aging father (a former Olympic biathlete turned hoarder) , a mother whose chosen to live in a yurt with a fireman twelve years her junior, and a well-meaning sister whose insufferable husband proves love isn't just blind, but also painfully stupid.As Aaron tries to make the world around him disappear in a haze of Vicodin and medical marijuana, the only true joy in his life comes from daily ninety-second radio spots of fun science facts: the speed of falling raindrops, batteries made out of starfish, and sexual responses triggered by ringtones - all told in the lush, disembodied voice of commentator Sunny Lee, with whom he falls helplessly, ridiculously, in love. Aaron's obsession with Sunny only hastens his downward spiral, like pouring accelerant on a fire. Pressured to do something - anything - to move his life forward, he takes the only job he can get. As a "fish counter" at the nearby dam, he concludes that an act of violent sacrifice to liberate the river might be his best, final option.
About the Author
KEN PISANI is an Emmy-nominated television producer and writer. "AMP'D," published by St. Martin's Press, is his first novel and a finalist for the 2017 Thurber Prize for American Humor. His original sci-fi graphic novel from Dark Horse Comics, "Colonus," won the Geekie Award for Best Comic Book and has been collected in a trade paperback.
Ken's original play about retired rival boxers of the civil rights era, "Glove Story," available on Amazon, was a finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and selected to the 2014 D.C. Black Theatre Festival. His short story, "My Brother Died And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt," was first published in the U.S. and U.K. anthology "More Tonto Short Stories," also available on Amazon. Ken is currently working on a variety of projects for film and television, including a feature screenplay co-written with David Seidler ("The King's Speech") , a new novel, and the TV adaptation of his Los Angeles Times best-selling novel "AMP'D" for Muse Entertainment:
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