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Alice, or The Wild Girl September 10, 2025
Alice sat in the darkness of the cabin, waiting for the door to open. On the island she had not been waiting for anything. She’d walked where she pleased, over sandy shore and through the forest, wandering like an aimless ghost among the trees. She l...
Nightswimming July 04, 2025
The instruments of darkness tell us truths~ William Shakespeare, MacbethPrefacePaterson, NJPaterson is often described as physically static; a time warp rooted by a skyline of once vital mills. Some are brick and some are sandstone and all of them ar...
Stop All the Clocks June 13, 2025
Excerpted from Stop All the Clocks. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Arcade Publishing.“I was raised in South Florida,” Marcos said once Mona had finished. He didn’t offer any sympathy for her or ask follow up questions, which, oddly e...
Glass Century May 23, 2025
From the BQE she caught the holy hell of it, the way smoke was streaming from burning steel. It was cinema, bad fiction, a plot point dreamed up as too ridiculous for art and discarded somewhere else. She drove on thinking that soon this would all di...
The Sleepers May 08, 2025
Akari was on the couch, scrolling Instagram.Her body was small, but she was very toned and lean from yoga and pilates classes, so she appeared longer than she was. And though her eyes were cast down, she was aware that Dan was staring at her, studyin...
The Condemned May 23, 2024
The shadow of the mountain range crept over the flat, arid land like outstretched fingers on San Juan Diego’s outskirts. Once known for its teeming farming, only a few residents remained in the remote village near the Mexico border. With the work gon...
VICTIM March 22, 2024
Mr. Martin pulled back the curtain. But my real transformation began at Donlon. It makes perfect sense now. Donlon was a whole new ecosystem where I could hone my new superpower. In fact, it was in one of my very first classes as a college stu...
I Lie About What Happened in Combat November 27, 2023
The following is an excerpt from River City One: A Novel (Knox Press; November 7, 2023).“West and me took a walk around the big base,” I started. “We wanted to see all the things we’d been deprived of and enjoy the freedom of stretching our legs with...
What It Feels Like to Survive an IED Blast November 09, 2023
The following is an excerpt from River City One: A Novel (Knox Press; November 7, 2023).I’m laughing now because I can still see him. He’s got his helmet on, the chinstrap dangling and tobacco spit coming off his lip. I tell you the right side of his...
Sex, Lies, and Murder on Mulholland Drive January 11, 2023
Bret Easton Ellis is back. In this excerpt from his first novel in over a decade, the author returns to his beloved Los Angeles, where privileged teenagers collide with a serial killer stalking the city....
