KN Magazine: Short Stories

Victor Kreuiter Shane McKnight Victor Kreuiter Shane McKnight

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.

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Lionel Mendoza Shane McKnight Lionel Mendoza Shane McKnight

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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Jacob Sloane Shane McKnight Jacob Sloane Shane McKnight

THE HOLE IN THE ICE

A month after Peggy disappeared, Tom stands over the square hole in the ice—the same hole the cops had searched and abandoned. As black water sloshes and secrets stir beneath the frozen surface, Tom reflects on what he’s done… until something—or someone—rises to meet him.

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