What if the curse that ruined your life could be turned into a money making proposition?  “Everyone I have ever spent New Year’s Eve with has died the following year. What would happen if I hired myself out as a one-night a year contract killer for an un-traceable, un-prosecutable crime?” wonders the anti-heroine of Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper.  She has good reason to wonder, surfing within sight of the poverty line makes the possibility of large annual injections of cash quite tempting.  But can she do it? Can she really use this curse to intentionally kill someone?   Besides that, how does one even advertise such a service? What begins as a joke on New Year’s Eve becomes a mission of vengeance and eventually a personal struggle for her soul.  This serialized novella is running bi-weekly in Encore Magazine in 2013.