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Modern Noir Romances<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tough Love<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Twelve stories about men and women who don\u2019t walk away clean. Desire, betrayal, miscalculation \u2014 each one leaves a mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are not puzzles. They are collisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Urban Noir<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cantina Psalms<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A novel of San Francisco \u2014 its politics, its shadows, and the people who move between them. Tom Gresham doesn\u2019t go looking for trouble. It recognizes him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Thomas Shess<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I write fiction.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve spent most of my life around stories that didn\u2019t behave \u2014 newsrooms, cities that never quite told the truth, people who saved the best parts for last. Most are dead never knowing what hit them. Salutos and carpe diem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since 2011, I also publish a daily current events, retro arts and literary blog at PillartoPost.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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