James Kinsak

• Nov-2013
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An isolated Colorado ski town. A serial killer who's losing control. 32 years ago, something evil happened in the small mountain town of Goldrock. Now four former children of the town have been summoned back by a mysterious letter writer who knows th...

• Oct-2013
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When David Friesen’s family is attacked by an apparent psychopath, he suffers a loss that is every parent’s nightmare. But even as his remaining family and world crumbles, he discovers that his loss was both less and worse than he thought. Becaus...

• Jun-2013
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Chicklet, a savvy-but-homeless drug addict, is beyond running on empty tonight. The search for food and drugs has driven her into a neighborhood she's never visited before. But the residents and visions she sees there make her wonder whether she's st...

• Jul-2012
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Josie escaped her life as a teenage prostitute but still bears the scars, including a damaged uterus, an inability to ever bear children. So when she finds a baby in a basket at the doors of a church, a sudden overwhelming need makes her take the chi...

• Apr-2012
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“It all came down to the little green box, of course. Whether to open it.”When Fitz meets a stranger in a bar after a very bad day, maybe he listens with a little too much credulity to the stranger’s take on how the world works. And maybe he’...

• Apr-2012
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When William's sister begs him to visit, he travels into the northern interior to visit her and her family, thinking he's on a kind of rescue mission. But in the snowy fields and basements of 100 Mile Ranch, the question is who, exactly, needs rescui...

• Mar-2012
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Get a full snootful of James Kinsak’s dark and gritty short fiction with the ten stories of his previous two collections, Mind Games and More Mind Games, collected together here in all their sharp-edged glory. From zombies to electronic stalkers, w...

• Mar-2012
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Here are 5 more James Kinsak stories, filled with a dark emotional honesty �" dealing with the conflicting desires we feel inside for love or money, for different sexual partners, for helping someone vs. protecting ourselves, for staying ethically p...

• Mar-2012
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Bobby wakes up to shattering sounds like eight-inch cockroaches are shoving dishes off the kitchen shelves in his third-floor apartment. But it’s not roaches; it’s a pimp and hooker fighting on the sidewalk below his window. Bad. Getting worse. N...

• Feb-2012
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An eager special effects artist named Colby, a braniac B-movie actress named Missy Angel, a coke-snorting leading man, and…a giant latex nose with dripping mucosa. The director wants Missy to get snorted up the nose. There’s no bleeping way Missy...

• Dec-2011
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Easter Sunday, Ward gets a call from his estranged wife. She says she caught a glimpse of their two boys in Lincoln City where they were presumed drowned a year ago today. It has to be a cruel joke, except Ward can hear his wife falling apart on the ...

• Oct-2011
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He lost just about everything when the "infected" swept through his ranch, killing his animals and turning his wife into one of them. But a man with grit never gives up. Especially on the woman he promised to love to the day he dies....

• Jun-2011
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Welcome to the dark imaginings of James Kinsak. Here are five stories about very bad people messing with minds of others who may or may not deserve it �" a psychiatrist who can’t figure out exactly how he’s been made prisoner, a husband and fath...

• Jun-2011
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The good doctor has a problem. He’s been trapped by a madman who claims to have wired electrodes into his brain. Which begs two questions: 1) Which of the many people with reason to hate the doctor is responsible? and 2) How the hell is he going to...

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• Mar-2011
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16-year-old Hoochie and his friend Shane snuck into the basement of First Nations accountant Frank Momaday one night and stabbed him to death with a pair of knitting needles. Hoochie was caught. In a world where most incarceration of criminals has be...

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