Oddballs : Short Story Collection

ODDBALLS: A Short Story Collection Ten tales of misfits, dreamers, and the beautifully broken. From the underground rock scene of 1980s New York to the ghostly aftermath of a serial killer's latest victim, ODDBALLS explores the lives of those who exist on society's fringes—and sometimes beyond its mortal borders. Meet Eddie, whose "friends" may be destroying his life (or are they even real?). Follow Moon Shariff as he accidentally time-travels with his high school janitor to meet his legendary grandfather. Walk alongside Loyd, a Victorian aesthete trapped in modern-day Brooklyn, searching for Oscar Wilde-level romance in a world that's forgotten how to feel. Join Morrie as he solves his own murder from beyond the grave, armed with nothing but his cynicism and a fellow ghost obsessed with true crime. These stories traverse punk rock hotels, psychiatric wards, poison-laced nightclubs, and abandoned manors where mad doctors once played god. Through dark humor, horror, and heartbreak, Buddy Devine captures the outcasts, the artists, the mentally ill, and the romantically doomed—all those who refuse to fit into neat boxes, even as the world tries to contain them. ODDBALLS is a raw, unfiltered celebration of the weird, the wounded, and the wonderfully strange among us.