Double-crossing dames, reanimated corpses, and the LAPD on your heels. It's hard to be a dick. Jim Hodgson reads.

Author Brian K. Lowe has been writing since he was a child, the same time during which he was devouring comic books and travelling to Mars with Edgar Rice Burroughs. A graduate of UCLA, Brian lives in Southern California with his wife, working as a paralegal in securities law. Write to him at [email protected]. He blogs at http://brianklowe.wordpress.com

Reader Jim Hodgson is a humorist from Atlanta, GA. He writes, produces, and acts in Bad Gladiator, a full-cast audio comedy set in ancient Rome.

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