We a please to announce the release of “A Therapeutic Death: Violent Short Stories” by J.B. Stevens. Featuring twenty-five stories of fiction and creative non-fiction drawn from experience and imagination, these stories will captivate and knock you out with heartfelt powerful prose. What to Expect inside… Crammed with twisted thrills, dark secrets, and elusive grasps […]
The pre-war rust-bucket taxi dropped Liam during dusk’s golden hour—the whole world a stage. Liam Gallagher dripped out. The sun backlit his lithe frame. He arched and reached to heaven. He knew he looked delicious. Thick shutters peaked open—the caller observed the show. Liam looked around Nixon’s suburban fever dream. The house was brick. Ivy […]
The dark-roast’s odor summoned Heck’s memory of the Costa Rican girl. His chest hurt and he remembered the Dear John email and the taste of Iraqi dust and the overwhelming sorrow. He lied to himself, mentally insisting he was better off—he wasn’t. He often considered cutting out dark roast, but never did. A man must […]
The Christmas tree stood proud, red and silver and plastic. It smelled real. The collector’s wife must have lit a pine-scented candle before leaving for church. The presents, more than I’d ever seen, were wrapped and stacked beneath simulated evergreen needles. Gold and blue paper popped under lights and tinsel—the place looked like a Hallmark […]
