James R Preston
1) Crashpad
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"It was arterial spray from her roommate Becky that saved Mary Jane's life. There was so much blood he must have thought she was dead too."
So begins Crashpad, a story set in the turbulent war year of 1970.
Skirts are short, hair is long; we've invaded Southeast Asia and the British have invaded us. College campuses everywhere are erupting with protests; Goldie Hawn go-go dances in a bikini and body paint.
Walter Dalrymple is a sophomore at...
2) Buzzkill
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"Am I going to die?"
Eighteen-year-old Mary Jane Bailey is sprawled on her back in a weed-choked field, bleeding from a cut on her forehead, when she asks that question to the man in a sharkskin suit standing over her holding a straight razor.
It is 1968. Jane is both a student and snitch. A federal agency asks her to keep her eyes open and report on potentially violent activities at Cal State Long Beach. For reasons even she doesn't understand, Jane...
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Sailor Home From Sea from the journals of T.R. Macdonald:
Westwood, CA. A UCLA Teaching Assistant is killed in a hit-and-run accident. But, it's not an accident. It's murder.
Chicago, IL. A therapist at a prominent mental health clinic kills his girlfriend, and then turns the gun on himself.
O'Hare International Airport. Mary Shaw, aka Kandi, and the love of my life, is fleeing the scene of the murder-suicide, when she is hacked. Her electronic...