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Category: Essays

Essays written by Josh Stallings

Inspiration for writing TRICKY

Posted on February 8, 2021February 9, 2021 by joshstallings

Everything I write starts from my life, people I’ve known, people I’ve been. Somewhere in the writing the characters and story gain a life of their own. Looking back I can see three distinct muses that drove the creation of TRICKY.

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Please Don’t Shoot My Son

Posted on February 8, 2021February 9, 2021 by joshstallings

I have been asked why publish Tricky now. In light of the Black Lives Matter and the Defund the Police movement, what kinda idjit writes a LAPD detective as a protagonist?  Short answer: Um, me.  Snarky answer:  Problems with the police didn’t start in the summer of 2020. If you haven’t noticed this, count yourself…

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Crime Fiction Needs Neurodiversity.

Posted on February 8, 2021February 9, 2021 by joshstallings

My placement of an intellectually disabled man at the center of Tricky wasn’t a decision to be neurodiverse—I hadn’t heard of the term yet—or a plotting calculation. It was personal. My son Dylan is intellectually disabled.

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