KN Magazine: Short Stories
You’re Perfect
Beren has watched from the doorway for months, longing to belong to the joyful, radiant community gathered in a basement meeting room. When she is finally welcomed inside, the warmth, music, and affection feel intoxicating—like flight. But as acceptance turns to possession, and belonging morphs into something far more sinister, Beren discovers that some invitations are not acts of love, but of hunger.
A Visit From the Past
When Ozark Rangers commander Rob Miller walks into a gas station robbery, he expects danger—not divine intervention. Saved by a mysterious young man who vanishes without a trace, Rob is left with a haunting question: was it coincidence, courage, or something from beyond? As the truth unfolds, faith, family, and the past collide in a powerful story about protection, prayer, and promises that refuse to die.
The Canaries
A pharmaceutical CEO is abducted, blindfolded, buried alive, and forced to listen. His captors are not seeking ransom or revenge—they want accountability. As the night unfolds, a chilling moral reckoning emerges, transforming a kidnapping into a meditation on power, profit, illness, and the cost of being unheard.
Survival Tactics
In a scorched desert landscape where family history and buried grudges collide, a mother and daughter visit an estranged patriarch whose past crimes and looming inheritance spark a deadly reckoning. Survival Tactics is a tense, character-driven crime story about violence deferred, revenge rehearsed, and the brutal clarity of self-preservation.
The Corner Booth
A man waits in a rundown diner for the woman he once loved, their shared past flickering between memory and ruin as they sign the papers that will end their marriage. In the sticky booth where everything began, he confronts love, loss, and the cracks—literal and emotional—that have slowly spread between them.
Avalanche
When a backcountry ski trip turns deadly, one man must fight the mountain—and his own limits—to survive. After an avalanche buries his fiancée’s father, Blake faces impossible choices in the frozen Colorado wilderness. Avalanche is a taut, heart-wrenching story of endurance, guilt, and love pushed to its breaking point.
Loretta Wakes Up
In Loretta Wakes Up, Molly Wilcox delivers a raw, redemptive story about a mother haunted by her past and a daughter who turned pain into art. Set against the shimmering backdrop of early 2000s Los Angeles, this haunting excerpt from Wilcox’s upcoming novel Off the Record explores guilt, love, and the thin line between redemption and ruin.
Accidents Will Happen
When three suburban widows discover freedom—and perhaps satisfaction—in a series of “accidental” deaths, dark humor meets moral ambiguity in Ken Pisani’s Accidents Will Happen. A sharply written tale of revenge, friendship, and fate where every accident might just be planned.
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