The Thirteenth Floor: The Light Fantastic

For 95 years the ghosts of The Hotel Stella have been trapped together on a secret floor—bored and bickering. Perhaps they should talk with a good shrink. A short humor story in The Light Fantastic.. INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR Q - What is The Light Fantastic? A - In The Light Fantastic 2, nine authors unite to bring laughter, chuckles, giggles, guffaws, and amusement to the masses amidst speculative twists and turns. Literary comedic geniuses like Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Swift, Helen Fielding, Samuel Beckett, Terry Pratchett, Gail Carriger, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde inspired the authors of the Alvarium Experiment in their quest for comedic gold, exploring every facet from dark humor to slapstick, deadpan to satire, dry humor to parody, and anything else we might consider a tickler of funny bones. The featured stories fall into fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres, but they do get up again and brush themselves off. This is the sixth project by the Alvarium Experiment, a consortium of accomplished and award-winning authors. Q - Where should a reader start when selecting a short story to read in The Light Fantastic? A - Each story is self-contained and can be read in any order. The reader is free to select any of the stories at random to begin their experience. The book description will explain the premise for each particular story. About the Author SCOTT MICHAEL POWERS lives in Orlando, Florida, spending his days as a political journalist. He saves his fiction writing for after-hours, creating novels and short stories that mix suspenseful thrillers with dabs of speculative fiction. Powers’ buddy-story thriller The Roswell Swatch, released in late 2016, is an award-winning, five-star novel available on Amazon.com. It features a tormented veteran of the war in Afghanistan and a B-list rock ’n’ roll star roaming the country to prove the existence of UFOs—or a grandfather’s integrity, whichever—before a dangerous, shadowy organization called “the silencers” might stop them. His other novels, The Murder Plague, and The Space-Coast Out-Of-This-World-News & Herald Tribune both are ready for the right publisher. “The Thirteenth Floor” is Powers’ second contribution to an Alvarium Experiment anthology. His “The Brazilian Millionaire’s Butler,” an homage to Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, appeared in The Masters Reimagined, published in 2017. Visit him at www.facebook.com/ScottMichaelPowers/.

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