A Hole in the Darkness
Suggested Price:A cop and a crook drive out in the middle of nowhere, late at night, and dig a grave. Then they try to decide who has to get in it.
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A Series of One-Sided Conversations
Suggested Price: $1.00A trio of dangerous scumbags mouth off about their assorted felonies, producing an emergent narrative about murder, blackmail, and bitcoin.
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A Series of Small, Precise Cuts
Suggested Price: $1.00An exploration of the hard, repetitive work that goes into serial killing, and catching a serial killer and, also, making linocut prints.
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After the Cops
Suggested Price: $1.00Technically science fiction, but there’s nothing in here that we couldn’t have by 2022, given sufficient political will. It’s a story about how public safety could be different in America, told mid-change.
Building A Death Ray Is Hard
Suggested Price: $1.00What it says. This is not SF or horror though, just gritty, gritty crime.
Careful, She Bites
Suggested Price: $1.00Two girls in a psych facility share personal information.
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Carving the Night-Dark Soil
Suggested Price: $1.00A man with an exciting and important life tries to trade it all in for a chance to write his novel about Protestant settlers in Nebraska. It is a work of satire. Additionally, I have read this one aloud as a podcast! Hooray!
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Domestic Situation
Suggested Price: $1.00TW for domestic violence. Who is really the most powerless in this mess?
Falling
Suggested Price: $1.00Martial arts students try to avoid getting hurt when they lose control of themselves.
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Freckles
Suggested Price: $2.00Sylvia and Carlo are on a cross-country murder trip, and it’s going great. Are they psychopaths or vigilantes? Read to find out!
Granddad’s Mystery House
Suggested Price: $1.00A very short and sincere story on the border between the fantastic and the dismally real.
Kindness
Suggested Price: $1.00A story about a man who tries to do something decent, only to have it go entirely off the rails.
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Letter From a Killer
Suggested Price: $1.00This short and nasty crime story won the Richard Eastman Founder’s Prize for Prose in 2021.
Regret, With Math
Suggested Price: $1.00The award-winning story of love, death, choice, and multiple-universe theory.
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Shrimp
Suggested Price: $1.00A taciturn judo instructor unexpectedly tells a chilling story about his childhood.
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Someday, Laughter
Suggested Price: $1.00A brief thing, prompted by the detonated fiction experiment. A short, bruising story about teenage theater humiliation.
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