Pointy Teeth is a collection of 12 short stories available as an ebook from Powells Books.
Two of the stories are available as Free Reads:
• Beat the Devil
• The Hotel Fred
Beat the Devil
Penman is a formerly hard-drinking reporter with a new liver that came from a Sunday school teacher. One day he finds the devil sitting on his barstool, still the only place he can write. The devil makes his usual offer: Penman's soul for anything the scribe might want. Anything. Penman turns the devil down flat ... well, the first time anyway.
The Hotel Fred
Charlie and Twine take a 10th anniversary trip to an ultra-chic resort in Mexico owned by a reclusive former rock star. Once they arrive, Twine reveals a secret life-altering connection to the singer. Charlie is saved from drowning by a babe from Hollywood. Can any marriage survive tropical heat?
Smoked Out
Mark Bellknap has the fix in at his local library: he always gets the books he wants before anyone else. Then not only is he bumped down to number two, but every book he wants to read reeks of cigar smoke. There's only one way he can make things right.
High Heat
Pitcher Kyle Kilgore is a baseball phenom, Rookie of the Year and Cy Young Award winner. He is rewarded with an enormous contract and immediately loses his control. He pitches so wildly the fans laugh at him. But one guy goes too far.
Bunny and Sunshine
Bunny has a lesion on his brain, the kind often found in serial killers. Sunshine is beautiful except for a broken nose. She's Bunny's lover ... and maybe his sister. Illinois budget politics have just closed their mental health facility and turned them loose on the public.
Fixer-upper
Noel Whistler's wife, Sheila, accused him of statutory rape, divorced him, and took him to the cleaners. Now she's dead. So what is Whistler up to when he buys the old mansion Sheila is currently haunting?
No Good Deed ...
Jeff Marsh comes to the roadside assistance of Hollywood actress Johnnie Reed. He soon realizes that her stalker is now after him. Which is just how Johnnie wants it. But the movie star has forgotten that what goes around comes around.
Speed Trap
Small-town terror Cully Egan races his motorcycle through a school zone, endangering the lives of young children. But the mayor and the town council seem to have no legal recourse. So they turn to Chief of Police Frank Percival, the cop they brought in from Chicago. Frank has his own ideas on law enforcement.
Sleepover
Is it possible for Ray Donnelly to turn a snowy night with a Boston ice queen into a hot date? Even if he's not really trying? Well, it helps rhat both Ray and Janie Prince are teenagers, and may have more in common than either of them ever would have guessed.
Secret Santa
Jack and Cassie Gosden find out that having a stranger enter your house while you're sleeping and put a present under the Christmas tree can be pretty creepy. Especially when he leaves a dead puppy. And that's only the first gruesome gift he delivers. Makes having a happy new year a real challenge.
Younger Woman
It's hard when a woman finds out her husband has fallen in love with someone younger. But Casey Severin has an even tougher problem. Her husband, Mark, has become infatuated with a picture taken of Casey, herself, when she was 19. She's now 46. Is this the end of her marriage or the start of something brand new?