Ed Tasca

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“The Spider Story” by Ed Tasca

Submitted to Contest #282

The Spider Story - Ed Tasca  Stan and Emily had an unresolved marital secret. Stan hated going to parties thrown by Emily’s friends but never said so, and Emily knew it but pretended not to.   “I’ll give you a quick capsule of what Edgar’s book is all about while we drive. So you know what everybody is talking about at the party,” Emily said as Stan and Emily climbed into their car.   Stan seldom read a novel except when everyone else he knew had read it and his friends talked about it at poker. Stan liked books abo...

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Ed Tasca is from Philadelphia. Was a landed immigrant in Canada from 1983 to 2010. He currently lives in Mexico. He has published seven works of fiction, most of which are comic novels or novellas. He’s also a published playwright and award-winning screenwriter and has won a host of national awards for humor. His humor has been published in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, Italy, Australia and Norway. For seven years and still going, Ed has been writing a popular humor column for the Guadalajara Reporter, one of the largest English-language newspapers in Mexico. He's a literary descendant of the great Robert Benchley.