It was part of the book Haunted which was a short story collection with an overarching framing device. The story is called Obsolete and it looks like somebody posted a full (poorly formatted) version to their blog here: http://horrorstoriesvault.b…

I'm assuming that he proves the afterlife exists which causes people to kill themselves in the hope of something better. It sounds kind of similar to a Chuck Palahniuk story where astronauts discover that Venus is where people end up when they die and its a really great hedonistic afterlife, but that if there is an…

No, I have never made it to Kodiak but I would really like to. I imagine that the ferry from Bellingham all the way there would be quite a long ride, like ten days or so. Do you have any family or connections there still?

Having been born in and lived most of my life in Alaska (including the present) it's hard to have a wildest or funniest memory since it's just life. Here's one that comes to mind, though: some friends and I were skiing through the night to get out to a cabin where a number of our friends already were and the dogs we…