Crossing the bridge onto Chaise's Key has its perils, so it seems. The luxurious coastal enclave on the west coast of Florida is home to the famous horror writer Thomas Twolane, who turns out to be the perfect instigator of a woman's wild tales. She's "Pooched," and Twolane knows it. But Mila and Mark Kratos, her closest friends, and the woman's husband, Wyatt, have grown tired of her eccentricities. And, unlike Twolane, they decide they're done playing along. But that's the end of the sto...

When Concetta Pianto sang her Il dolce suono, the people on Bokeem slowed to listen. But no one ever asked why she sang so often. "Nor did they query the vibrant bruises, tracked downward from her face to her limbs." Background Music is a woman's story of societal denial and private suffering—though the pain is not Concetta's alone. There are others. A cross-dressing teen, a dutiful wife, and a mutt named Red-eyed Blue suffer, too. But no one ever asks—Why?

Girl-X, Holland, Concetta, and dead Aoife have been friends since boarding together at Saint Gabriel's Girls Academy in the 1970s. They shared everything—except the truth of their lives. And those kept secrets debilitate, until they are spared by a conjuring of letters through which dead Aoife annuls their pains and gives air to their suffocated voices.

Inspired by the poet Salvador Torres-Martinez, this short work of fiction is an immigration story, in a small way, which celebrates the fortitude of an undocumented, American-born Mexican, and the son to whom he gives the love of words and the courage to live them.While inspired, the story does not belong to Salvador. It is pure fiction.The powerful artwork on the cover is that of Cuban-American artist Vince Herrera.

Isabelle Lamberton loves her philandering father but loathes her long-suffering mother. Time blisters as the woman must care for the man who'd terrorized the City, killed her father, yet saved her life. "The Porter's Muse" is a short story that tugs at the boundaries of difficult truths and a woman's journey through these entanglements.

When eighty-two-year-old Miss Savannah goes missing one stormy evening, the entire neighborhood is set into a frenzy, and a laughable search ensues the next morning. As the hours pass, a woman admirer of Miss Savannah's wit and earnest advice makes a startling discovery—but it isn't Miss Savannah.

Her name says it all. But KaNoah's houseguest just doesn't get it, even during the dim days of a global pandemic. Tomato tells the humorous and ironic tale of mishaps when givers and takers are sequestered together in the age of COVID-19.

When a new family moves into their dream house, they think its everything they ever wanted. But what they don't realize is that the fun is just beginning. The family is forced to defend themselves against something no one would ever believe.

When Special Agent Catherine Macgregor arrives home from work to find her front door ajar, deep concern immediately engulfs her. With her gun drawn she enters, her baby sitter is brutally murdered, and her nine-year-old daughter Abigail is missing - abducted.Banned from working on the case by her superior nothing will stop this mother from doing what-ever is within her power throughout many twists, and turns, as she attempts to track down her daughter alive before it's too late.

Keep the lights on. ALL the lights. Every room.Laura Poole’s house was supposed to be a safe zone, a place to heal following an ugly divorce. But after a perfect beginning, her cozy home in a small Nevada town is no longer safe. The nightmare starts when Laura realizes someone has been getting into her house while she’s at work. The police find no evidence of forced entry, nothing is missing, and Laura’s increasingly erratic behavior raises questions about her emot...

Everyone wanted to know about her. The scariest thing of all was that she also wanted to know. Eve Summers was lost in her own dead mind. All she knew was the day before. Her whole life had disappeared after she woke up in a tiny cabin on a hillside. Befriended now by a kind woman, but harassed by a police chief, she also wondered about the man that had owned the cabin. So many questions and not one answer to who she was or where she came from.

A man wakes with no memory, just a fake ID and instructions. He follows along and sets off a chain of events that spiral out of control.Will doesn’t know who he is. After he performs an assassination he has a choice to make: take the money and run or dig deeper and try to understand what is going on.Will can’t walk away, so to continue his investigation he must keep working for Markus, the man who ordered the assassination. His mission is to collect a serie...