book review

Legacies of Despair Author: Laura Purcell She’s locked away now. Silent. Allegedly crazy. She did, after all, kill everybody. That’s what they say, anyway. They need her testimony for the trial. Her psychiatrist is convinced that he can get her story, that he can unlock her soundless lips. What he forces her to remember – what she writes to him in her little cell – is beyond what he expected. It’s beyond what the mind can handle. Elise had a checkered past. One that already had a lot of blood in it. But that’s all secret, all behind her when she [...]

True Corporate Hell Author: Grady Hendrix Amy hates her job. The bright, fake cheerfulness of her Ikea-like furniture store job; the joy-through-retail lie; and the almost cultish company spiels she’s required to recite to mystified customers and new hires throughout the day. But she needs the money, and she needs to stay under her boss’ radar until she gets her transfer. All that is about to change, however, when Basil, the ardent, buy-the-company-line boss picks Amy and one of her coworkers to help him monitor the store at night and find out who is damaging all the stock. Everyone else was [...]

Horror in the Forest Author: Steve Stred In the border, there is a small settlement. People who deliberately live off-the-gride and keep to themselves. They keep the old ways, and they honor the old agreements. They do not go past the clearing. They do not go into the area known as the border. And they are left alone. Until now. Until a scream in the night, followed by the discovery of a young girl’s mutilated body. Something has awoken, some ancient agreement has been broken, and it’s anyone’s guess if and where the carnage will end. Enter the Basco PD officers. [...]