Tim Kirk writes and edits a collection of stories set in a world
where “The Feral Boy who lives in Griffith Park” exists. The
largest urban park in the nation, dwarfing New York’s Central
Park by five to one, is the fertile ground where new myths and
legends grow. A murderous Western Swing guitarist, a golf
caddie turned tabloid writer, a pair of tweakers at their first
parent support group, a suicidal father taking his last hike, and
other stories span decades of life in Los Angeles.

Featuring stories by David Carpenter, Patrick Cooper, Rob
Zabrecky, Steve Newman, Tim Davis, and Josh Lawson.

Available from Pelekinesis

Tim Kirk’s Burnt is a dark, multi-generational drama that follows three interwoven stories for nearly a century. It was originally written as an online serial, published weekly between January 2010 and February 2011.

The first tale begins in 1873, in the deserts that reach into Mexico where an outlaw and his daughter face crooked lawmen, horse thieves, a Padre named David, and a bloodthirsty posse. Another story unfolds in Los Angeles, establishing itself in 1923 before making its way through 1947, with an industrialist, a socialite, their daughter Lotus, and everyone from pioneering policewoman Minnie Barton to Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and her Angelus Temple. The third and final story takes place in 1970 where a former professor looking for his estranged wife takes his young daughter on a desperate journey through the near-dead remains of a defunct counter-culture to a final confrontation with his guru father in the mountains of Colorado.

Each story is full of surprises that zig-zag across time and place and weave through history with imagination and intrigue.

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Or read the original serial saga that inspired the book!  BURNT!