KN Magazine: Short Stories

Ryan Bausch Shane McKnight Ryan Bausch Shane McKnight

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.

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Will Hodgkinson Shane McKnight Will Hodgkinson Shane McKnight

MY STRANGER

A man becomes transfixed by a stranger whose appearance mirrors his own, drawing him into a haunting, dreamlike pursuit through rain-blurred streets, empty buses, and echoing corridors—until the boundaries between self and other begin to dissolve.

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Barry Fields Shane McKnight Barry Fields Shane McKnight

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.

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