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Borrowed Smoke
Dec 2025
Bristol Noir
A man haunted by a dead girl and a borrowed cigarette repays his debts under a bridge at rush hour.
Bad Brett
Literary Garage
Two sixteen-year-olds steal a brick of cocaine, but only one of them has an exit plan.
North Country
Jan 2026
Revolution John
A woman walks into a dive bar looking for what her jailed boyfriend left behind — and finds it.
Mona
Feb 2026
Pistol Jim Press
An unlicensed PI flies to Tijuana to rescue his high school sweetheart, only to learn some people can't be saved twice.
Redline
Bending Genres
A seventeen-year-old with a Sebring, a thermos of rum, and an unanswered text races toward the only ending he can't outrun.
Des Moines
Mar 2026
Villain Era
A bikini bartender, a rigged heist, and a man who should have known better than to leave her breathing.
Blind as a Bat
Underbelly Press
A blind safecracker takes one last job, but the only thing waiting inside is the setup he never saw coming.
Fresh Fades
Cowboy Jamboree
A seventeen-year-old suburban kid gets tangled up with his friend's girl, and what starts as a harmless summer fling builds toward a reckoning he's not sure he's ready for.
Unscathed
Trash Cat Lit
A young man pieces together the night a convenience store robbery cost him the person he loved most.
My Hero
Apr 2026
Close to the Bone
A lonely man with a rusty .22 will do anything for the woman who makes him feel whole — and she's counting on it.
Clyde
101 Words
A lonely man pours two fingers of bourbon and drinks with the ghost of the woman who lied to him.
Ex-Thief
A man trying to go straight discovers that leaving the life is easier than the life leaving him.
Door Number Three
May 2026
Dodo Eraser
A young man looks back on a volatile first love — the kind that burns bright, leaves marks, and finally makes a terrible kind of sense.
Golden Child
Rock and a Hard Place (Stone's Throw)
A high school basketball star, the kid in his shadow, and one trip to the city that changes everything.
Bobby Plays The Blues
Punk Noir
A rock frontman traces the arc of a friendship he outgrew and a betrayal he can't quite name.
Dream of Jeannie
Hawkeye
Three friends on the run after a botched score. A story about bad decisions, borrowed time, and what gets left behind.
Saltwater and Smoke
Bunker Squirrels
A man with blood on his hands spots a woman set to collect.