title: Black: A Novella
author:  Max Booth III 
description: Max Booth III is the author of four books: Toxicity (Post Mortem Press, 2014), a black comedy crime novel; The Mind is a Razorblade (Kraken Press, 2014), a neo-noir horror novel; and two story collections, True Stories Told By a Liar (Numen Books, 2012) and They Might Be Demons (Dark Moon Books, 2013). He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. Since 2011 he has been the Assistant Editor of Dark Moon Digest and has edited four anthologies: Zombie Jesus and Other True Stories (Dark Moon Books, 2012), Zombies Need Love, Too (Dark Moon Books, 2013), So it Goes: a Tribute to Kurt Vonnegut (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, 2013), and Long Distance Drunks: a Tribute to Charles Bukowski (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, 2014). He studied under award winning editor, Jennifer Brozek, for the Beast Within 4: Gears &amp; Growls anthology. He has also studied under Craig Clevengers 200 Proof Storytelling class. Max currently lives in San Antonio, Texas with his life partner and dachshund. Follow him on Twitter @GiveMeYourTeeth and visit him on his website www.TalesFromTheBooth.com.
zlib_text: Black Jasmine
  
  A Lei Crime Novel
  
  Toby Neal
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and
  incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a
  fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or
  actual events is purely coincidental.
  
  
  Black Jasmine
  
  
  Copyright © 2012 by Toby Neal.  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
  distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including
  photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without
  the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief
  quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses
  permitted by copyright law.
  
  
  Electronic ISBN 978-0-9839524-6-6
  
  
  Print ISBN 978-0-9839524-7-3
  
  
  Cover photo © Mike Neal at [NealStudios.net](http://nealstudios.net)
  
  
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