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.
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  # Unexpected
  
  
  ### A novella
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## MC Decker
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  UNEXPECTED
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 M.C. Decker
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
  distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic,
  mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written
  consent of the author.
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either
  are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental and beyond the intent of the author or publishers.
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover Design: T.E. Black, T.E. Black Designs
  
  
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  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](part0003.html#2RHM0-ed96f49a13cd4105a73dd779b5c9e410)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1\. [Cassidy](part0004_split_000.html#3Q280-ed96f49a13cd4105a73dd779b5c9e410)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  2\. [Cassidy](part