Death at the Sundial Motel
Death at the Sundial Motel
Short Story (Prose)
· Thriller · 27 pages
When a Border Patrol Agent is set free after killing an undocumented man, the dead man's mother seeks revenge and inadvertently uncovers a human trafficking ring in her apartment building.
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Aaron Philip Clark
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ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition 2024
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Pasadena, CA
Aaron Philip Clark is an author and creative writing instructor at UCLA. He holds a BFA in Screenwriting and an MFA in Fiction. His novel, UNDER COLOR OF LAW, won the 2021 Book Pipeline Adaptation Contest. His novel, The Accomplice, a crime thriller written with Cutis '50 Cent' Jackson, will be published on Sept. 3, 2024.
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Originally published in the short story anthology Witness for the Dead: Stories (Soho Crime, 2022) edited by Gary Phillips and Gar Anthony Haywood. The story was later published in Mysterious Bookshop Presents The Best Mystery Stories of the Year (2023), edited by Amor Towles and Otto Penzler.