It was just a way for him and Caroline to get ahead for once in their lives. And if the stakes have become higher than expected, well, then they just have to choose, don’t they? Play or die.

She’s just come from Psych class when the cops show her the half-cooked corpse of her aunt. It gets worse when they try to explain exactly how the aunt died.

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...

Bad things happen in basements. Like lectures. And knives. And things aren’t always what they seem.

An emotionally struggling lawyer, who’s just found out she might be adopted, goes looking for her birth family in an isolated Colorado ski town, only to be trapped there with a hulking serial killer who’s rapidly losing control. 32 year...

You’re being stalked by e-mail and the stalker’s closer than you think.

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 husb...

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 go...

“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. A...

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 ethic...