title: Zombie Strippers and Other Strange Words
author: Victor D Lorthos
description: Victor D. Lorthos was born in the American South in 1969 to a fine family. He was raised by wolves in the deepest, darkest parts of the South but mostly grew up in Mississippi. Over the years he's done and been many things, from a simple feral wolf-person to a public access television producer. Somehow he found time to write award winning short stories admist all the chaos of life, and so here we are. Victor's collected writings can now be found in "Zombie Strippers and Other Strange Words," which is an apt description of a life if anything ever was. He describes himself as "a drinker with a writing problem." He also has cats though, so he's got that going for him.
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  THE DEATH OF HALPIN FRAYSER
  
  THE SECRET OF MACARGER'S GULCH
  
  ONE SUMMER NIGHT
  
  THE MOONLIT ROAD
  
  A DIAGNOSIS OF DEATH
  
  MOXON'S MASTER
  
  A TOUGH TUSSLE
  
  ONE OF TWINS
  
  THE HAUNTED VALLEY
  
  [A JUG OF SYRUP](Can%20Such%20Things%20Be_split_001.html#filepos164230)
  
  [STALEY FLEMING'S
  HALLUCINATION](Can%20Such%20Things%20Be_split_001.html#filepos180039)
  
  [A RESUMED IDENTITY](Can%20Such%20Things%20Be_split_001.html#filepos185048)
  
  [A BABY TRAMP](Can%20Such%20Things%20Be_split_001.html#filepos196952)
  
  [THE NIGHT-DOINGS AT
  'DEADMAN'S'](Can%20Such%20Things%20Be_split_001.html#filepos207296)
  
  [BEYOND THE WALL](Can%20Such%20Things%20Be_split_001.html#filepos225642)
  
  [A PSYCHOLOGICAL
  SHIPWRECK](Can%20Such%20Things%20Be_split_001.html#filepos244922)
  
  [THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT
  FOOT](Can%20Such%20Things%20Be_split_001.html#filepos254155)
  
  [JOHN MORTONSON'S
  FUNERAL](Can%20Such%20Things%20Be_split_001.html#filepos273597)
  
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