Gettin’ Laid
April 20, 2026
Ethan has spent twelve years perfecting a system for never being known. Then an ER nurse refuses to perform anything for him. Adult literary fiction.
Category: Fiction (Page 6)
FictionThe Time Machine
April 20, 2026
A Victorian scientist builds a time machine because his wife is dying. Thirty stops across a billion years, grounded in real science, with the woman who actually ran the expedition.
Fiction20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
April 20, 2026
Verne's Nautilus, narrated by Ned Land in present tense, counting hatches and days. With Lakara, Nemo's executive officer, a character the original did not have.
FictionDeath, Murder, and Zombies
April 20, 2026
Not rage and not trauma. Careful logic applied to a false premise turns an ordinary man into a killer. Psychological horror narrated from inside the descent.
FictionKiller Cuts and Dead Letters
April 20, 2026
A salon owner and a mail carrier between them know everything about a block, which turns out to matter after chapter two. A dark comedy crime novel.
FictionUnlikely Hero
April 20, 2026
A career criminal and a veteran patrolman collide on a desert highway, and what is in the trunk forces both to decide who they are. A 146-page thriller.
Critical ThinkingFamily on Ice
April 20, 2026
The Toba eruption cut sunlight across Eurasia seventy-four thousand years ago. A family group tries to stay alive through it, in prose with no quotation marks and no comfort.
FictionThe Woman Who Walked Through Walls
April 20, 2026
Brit finds a phone that opens doors in walls, where nothing she does follows her back. A psychological thriller about what a person does when consequences become optional.
Critical ThinkingThe Mysterious Island
April 12, 2026
Verne's castaway novel retold as the private record of Gideon Spilett, with Neb given his own story and a New Mexican widow the original did not have.
FictionThe Blonde With a Violin Tattoo
April 11, 2026
Annabelle is twenty-two and watching a clock when two strangers kiss in the lobby at 10:47 on a Tuesday. A year of finding out what she actually wants.
FictionForty Worlds
April 11, 2026
Forty short stories in forty genres, each with a note on where it came from. A detective dog, the fall of Constantinople, a vampire in therapy, and a chicken that outsmarts God.
FictionShield of Ashes
April 10, 2026
A near-future nuclear escalation across four continents in 2029, told in twelve phases, with the doctrine grounded in the real thing and the civilians given equal weight.