KN Magazine: Short Stories
Sisters
Set in an Italian immigrant household in 1920s Newark, “Sisters” explores the volatile bond between two adolescent sisters shaped by beauty, jealousy, longing, and survival. As desire, shame, and power collide during a single summer day, the family’s fragile equilibrium fractures, revealing how love and rivalry can turn irrevocably destructive within the confines of tradition, patriarchy, and poverty.
Penalty Kick
When a celebrated college soccer star is found murdered in her dorm room days before a championship match, Detective Megan Hall uncovers a web of academic fraud, booster corruption, and moral compromise beneath the surface of a tight-knit Southern university. As pressure mounts from the media, the community, and powerful interests invested in winning at any cost, Hall must follow the evidence to a truth that exposes how integrity can become dangerous when money, reputation, and ambition collide.
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.
A Matter of Time
When Madison stops in a nearly abandoned town to repair her grandfather’s antique watch, she discovers a chilling truth: Horary Crossing isn’t just forgotten—it’s unstuck in time. As the past awakens around her and a long-dead killer returns, Madison must fight to survive a night that has already happened… and is happening again.
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