A Cold Day In Hell

“A Cold Day in Hell”; a 13,000 word novella with some mature content.“Have you ever been cold, Miller? Real cold? So cold that you can’t even remember having felt warm? It is not pleasant – even less pleasant to be cold and without hope at the same time. You understand being without hope, don’t you?”Miller understands, perhaps better than most, and when he finds a woman cold and alone in the park on a foggy night with nowhere to go, he takes her in. Simply having another person in his apartment disturbs him. He hopes Janice will have disappeared by the time he gets back from work, not caring if she takes all his possessions with her, making public his stupidity. But Janice isn’t like Nadine, whose leaving sent Miller into a self-imposed exile.“I pay my debts, Miller,” she tells him. But he isn’t sure this isn’t part of a con, to take him for more than his belongings might bring. What does she really want?