Peter Rosch

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“Ovation ” by Peter Rosch

Submitted to Contest #123

I say my last line, "God bless us, Every One!"Then, just shy of the stage's apron, I look down and into the auditorium, trying my hardest to go evil eyes—eyes that scream, screw you all—upon what are supposed to be my victims.I wasn't expecting applause, but listen to it!Of course, it is the holidays... Their enthusiastic adoration could be for any number of reasons: the story itself, the typical up-tick in polite behavior around this time, the eggnog that had been served in the foyer prior to the performance...

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Peter Rosch is what happens when a Polish drag-racing varsity bowler and a beautiful, but über paranoid, French Canadian Air Force brat get together on a disco dance floor in glorious Albuquerque, NM. It’s a special blend of crazy that he parlayed into a so-far successful career as a writer. His crowning achievement was being misidentified as a friend of Selma Hayek’s by Selma herself in a Beverley Hills bar sometime in the late 90s.