KN Magazine: Short Stories
Detour to Murder
When a Fred Harvey “Indian Detours” tour group arrives at the Hotel Alvarado in 1920s Albuquerque, a body turns up in the courtyard—platinum hair, blood, and a secret no one wants exposed. As Detective Webb untangles alibis, speakeasy detours, and mistaken identity, the case reveals a clever twist where jealousy, invisibility, and assumption become deadly.
CONFESSION
A haunting epistolary short story in which a woman finally reveals the truth about the 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake, the child she lost, and the new identity she forged to survive. A confession of grief, reinvention, and the fragile boundary between the past we flee and the past that shapes us.
THE CHAMBER
In this richly imagined historical tale, a master torturer is betrayed by the king he served—only to escape a brutal death in the chamber he designed. A darkly clever story of deception, survival, and poetic justice.
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