From quiet introspection to the extremes of the human psyche, What We Keep Hidden excavates what lies beneath our everyday lives: the beauty and brutality, the visible and hidden, the light we chase and the darkness we carry.These twelve stories and three poems span literary fiction, sci-fi, thriller, and horror, exploring the full spectrum of human experience: coming-of-age and self-discovery, grief and loss, the hunger for revenge, the capacity for violence, the systems that expl...

Tori's new life in California takes a dark turn when she becomes a research assistant at the Institute of Neuroscience Research (INR). The two doctors she works for are concealing dark secrets. As Tori recruits participants for their experiments, she realizes she might be the unwitting villain in this nightmare. Cornered and in grave danger, she must uncover the horrifying truth behind INR's experiments to save herself and others before it's too late.

Tori Garcia is adrift after college, disappointing herself and everyone who believed in her. When she relocates to California for a fresh start, she lands a position at the Institute of Neuroscience Research (INR), unaware of the horrors behind its walls. Trapped by the doctors who run the facility, Tori becomes an unwitting subject in experiments she never consented to. As people around her begin to disappear, Tori races against time to unravel INR's dark secrets before she becomes the ne...

When a fourteen-year-old runs away, her parents turn to social media to find her—launching a public campaign that will expose their darkest secrets and change their family forever, in this suspenseful and gripping debut for fans of Reconstructing Amelia and Gone Girl.Don’t try to find me. Though the message on the kitchen white board is written in Marley’s hand, her mother Rachel knows there has to be some other explanation. Marley would ...

An emergency room surgeon must defend himself against a teenage girl's shocking allegation "in this scalpel-sharp medical thriller" ( Kirkus).Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago. But now police detectives are questioning him about her, in intimate detail. It seems the seventeen-year-old girl he'd saved is now dead. It looks like a suicide. And Cogan is in a heap of trouble.Accused of raping the young woman, t...

A glimpse into the extraordinary world of ambulance driving from the man behind the wheel.‘Heart-stopping, eye-opening and jaw-dropping. Sometimes painful, sometimes sad, often very, very funny’ Craig BrownAn S&M party gone horribly wrongA dead man locked in a car with a hungry bull terrierA teenage girl with suspicious abdominal painsAnd a man who’s fainted, frightened he was allergic to his cheese and onion sandwic...

Jess Quinn's inspirational memoir tells her story of losing her leg to cancer as a nine-year-old and how she's come to an acceptance of this and turned it into a quest to help others.Jess Quinn is, in her own words, quite literally a walking miracle. Her body has been completely restructured so that she could survive an aggressive cancer.Jess's leg was amputated just before her ninth birthday, and she has had to adapt to living with a prosthetic leg. The ch...

In this paranormal romance, three men captive in a mysterious prison are drawn together by their special abilities and their powerful desire for one another.Data Collection by Dalhousie, Dr. Donna L.Patient 331New, confused. Powers unknown.Patient 289No longer viable in the test pool, he remains in isolation.Patient 77Reclassified to staff status. Useful, malleable.Confined in a sterile research facility and treated l...

Note to Self: When you feel f&*ed up: Stop. Breathe. Talk to someone. Tell them stuff. Stop being an asshole and thinking you’re going to get through it alone. Problems are like broken pipes: they need a person to fix them. Oh, and clean your room, you filthy animal.Kevin Breel burst into the public's awareness when at 19 his TED talk became a worldwide phenomenon. Through the lens of his own near suicide, he shared his profoundly vulnerable story of being young, m...

In the tradition of Post Secret and Other People’s Love Letters, a crowdsourced compilation of letters, stories, and art work about the modern state of love and relationships, edited by rising filmmaker and beloved YouTube vlogger Will Darbyshire.“What would you say to your ex, without judgment?”This is the question filmmaker and vlogger Will Darbyshire posed to hundreds of thousands of his closest friends on YouTube. Seeking clos...

What happens when plastic surgery goes terribly wrong?Kim Westfall spent the first 23 years of her life feeling inadequate. Her lifelong desire was to be a curvaceous woman, but after breast implant surgery she felt anything but glamorous as her dream of being a foxy chick turned into a living nightmare.Tonya Thomas writes gripping stories about issues that affect women today. She lives in Newark, NY with her husband and two cats, Sasha and Simka.For more informatio...

A nail-biting short story, perfect for Valentine's Day reading!One competition, one date, one Valentine’s Day to remember…His followers adore him.When social media influencer Kolby Kay agrees to take a fan for a Valentine’s date, the internet erupts with excitement. Hundreds of submissions later, one lucky follower wins a chance to be swept off their feet.Not everything is picture-perfect.The night begins ...