The title story “Start a Religion Stay Out of Jail” was the grand prize Winner of the Northwind Writing Award. “Start a Religion Stay Out of Jail” is  a collection of darkly comic stories that are the perfect antidote to the troubling times we live in. Influences on this work are: Kurt Vonnegut, Milan Kundera, and Kafka. These stories have appeared in literary magazines such as “Marrow Magazine”, seminal Canadian lit magazine: “Blood and Aphorisms” (Best of collection) and many others.

Cover design by Ana Pinto (see her other book covers here). https://acpcreativelab.com/bookcovers . The concept was to create a National Enquirer style tabloid. It occurred to me one day that we are now living in a world where these type of bizarre news stories that once graced the cover of the Enquirer are now routinely shared as "facts" and real life.

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