Darrin Atkins: 9 books

Sometimes you want someone to be there for you when you need them and they aren't and your world just falls apart and the skies fall and the earth crumbles underneath you and everything in life becomes too difficult to handle. You hope that it isn't too much to ask to have just one good friend in this world.

Chuck McCroskey is my new name. I changed it because that's the first step in my transformation. I was sick of my other life and how I lived and what I didn't do every single day. It was time to move on and get out of the wasted sense of existence that I had led.

"The Crooked Mechanics" rip off so many customers in their mechanic shop that, when the authorities close in, they pack up and escape across country in a truck. They finally end up in St. Louis and their last chance to escape in a plane fails miserably near the Gateway Arch.

There's a lot of sin out there and "The End of Me: and 11 other sinful stories" brings it all together. Meet the drug dealer in Vicious Alley. The demented drifters in Losing It. The runaway stockbroker in Dark City Nights. The hardened kidnappers called The Vegas Guys. The murdering lieutenant...

"The Quitter: and other tales of employment" is a collection of short stories on employment. Each story describes the events surrounding my experiences with different companies and the corresponding personal events in my life. If I had a job or worked for a company I didn't want to, it was because I had to if I wanted to survive.

Sarah is my best friend. I have never known a better person, a more wonderful woman, a more courageous individual. I am grateful that she gave me a chance to be a part of her life, a chance to know her, and I promise to be as loyal as her dog, Chance.