Hey, This is it, I'm Going to Die: A Short Story Collection

A Collection of 12 Short Stories.What strange guests are these? A boy with the ability to lead the dead. A girl who can hear her dog’s thoughts. A badger returning a little lost boy. A woman who turns out not to be a woman at all. From a farm in the Deep South to the Erie Lackawanna train Station in Summit, New Jersey, the tales in “Hey This is it, I’m Going to Die” are written with an ear for pitch and an eye for the mundane. Welcome to the oddly bent world of Ron Heacock where the horrifying and the sublime captivate.

Ron Heacock lives with his wife, Karen Walasek, and her loyal service dog, Finn. They split their time between the farm, HillHouse Writer's Retreat, in the hills of southern Tennessee and their home in the city of Portland, Oregon. Ron spent many years as a performing songwriter and has shared the stage with such notable artists as Alan Ginsberg and Pete Seeger. His work has been published in Connotation, PaperTape, The LIMN Literary & Arts Journal, Cease Cows, The Elohi Gadugi Journal, Far Enough East, and The Pitkin Review. He has his BA and MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. Hey, This is it, is his first short story collection.