title: The Gandy Dancer and Other Short Stories
author: B. D. Sparhawk
description: B.D. Sparhawk is an unusual woman who has been: the only outdoor scaffold-climbing billboard painter in the USA; radio and T.V. producer; news-writer for CBS, ABC &amp; Fox T.V. writer on THE NEW YORK POST; US Congressional Press Secretary. She's had her own sign painting, mural and portrait business; wax chaser in a bronze foundry; sculptor, and more. And says she would still choose scary-thrilling entrepreneurial razzmatazz above all else. SPARHAWK lives in Big Sur with her cat Gorgeous. She has been driven her whole life by curiosity and the chance to witness. She is currently working on her second novel, Whirlpool, and her first novel soon to be published, Noise. And four new children's books. SPARHAWK was commissioned for original oil portraits William F. Buckley, Jr. James Fox (former head of the NY FBI) and other luminaries. Her work has appeared in major motion pictures, and is in wide-ranging private collections. She designed and sculpted models for a heroic-sized bronze memorial to the slain police officers of NYC (The Angel &amp; The Officer); her spirit of adventure most recently took her cross country as a photographer's assistant on T.V's SURVIVOR-AFRICA, 2001 after which she moved to Yosemite for a year to write.
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  [Corridor Man 1](text/part0000_split_000.html)
  
  
  [Corridor Man 2 - Opportunity Knocks](text/part0000_split_084.html)
  
  
  [Corridor Man 3 - The Dungeon](text/part0000_split_165.html)
  
  
  [Corridor Man 4 - Dead End](text/part0000_split_237.html)
  
  
  [Corridor Man 5 - Finger](text/part0000_split_297.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Before you go any further I’d like to offer you two FREE Dev Haskell tales.
  
  
  Novella #1; Twinkle Toes is the fast-paced search for an exotic dancer Dev
  knew in high school as his pink-haired prom date, ‘Twink’. Twink hasn’t been
  seen since she went to a photoshoot for a sleazy car dealership and Dev sets
  out to find her.
  
  
  
  
  
  Novella #2; Dollhouse when Dev’s very close friend Sallie decides to conduct
  an undercover investigation of the Dollhouse, Dev pitches an uncharacteristic
  hissy-fit. Sallie’s a big girl, but Dev could be right about this one. The
  Dollhouse is an adult entertainment establishme