Michael Loyd Gray is the author of six published novels and over forty short stories featured in a wide range of literary journals. He is a winner of the 2005 Alligator Juniper Fiction Prize and the 2005 The Writers Place Award for Fiction. His novel ‘The Armageddon Two-Step’ received a Book Excellence Award, while ‘Well Deserved’ won the 2008 Sol Books Prose Series Prize. Gray holds an MFA in English from Western Michigan University, where he was a Phi Kappa Phi scholar and fiction editor for ‘Third Coast’. He is an invited member of the Society of Midland Authors and has forthcoming novellas set for release in 2024.
A disillusioned musician navigates a bleak West Texas night filled with rowdy bar patrons, unfulfilled dreams, and unexpected encounters, questioning the harsh realities of life and the elusive nature of kindness.