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Houston Noir

Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, edited by Gwendolyn Zepeda

"The fridge is empty."


Not Bad People

Brandy Scott

"Just as well she never had children."


Welcome To Nightvale: The Illustrated Script

By Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, Illustrated by Jessica Hayworth

Exclusive illustrations from vols. 3 and 4 of the Welcome to Nightvale transcripts!


Berlin Noir

Katja Bohnet, edited by Thomas Wörtche

"Thea Stauffer looked at her hands and was surprised at how she had managed to let herself go."


The Lingering

S.J.I. Holliday

"‘You’re probably wondering what I’m doing here, aren’t you?’"


Spring Cleaning

Antonio Manzini, translated by Antony Shugaar

"Sprawled in his bed, Rocco was looking at the facing wall."


The Colorado Kid

Stephen King

"'Twenty-five years ago,' he said, 'back in ’80, there were two kids who took the six-thirty ferry to school instead of the seven-thirty.'"


The East End

Jason Allen

"He crested the soft hill and slid like a lizard down the other side, his shirtsleeves and the belt line of his jeans filled with sand by the time he entered a copse of beach grass waving in the wind."


Tightrope

Amanda Quick

"The muffled scream jolted Amalie out of the falling dream."


Where the Missing Go

Emma Rowley

"I’m a bad mother."



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