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Stories from the edges. Dark fiction, coatal noir, and literary work shaped by the strange places where life, art, and the ocean meet. 

*Coming Soon* - Beneath the Blue is black

Beneath the Blue Is Black is a coming-of-age novel set in the dangerous world of Maui’s black coral divers, where seven-year-old Tag Hewitt is taken to the island by his father after his mother leaves them, forcing him to live with a hardened grandfather shaped by a lifetime at sea. In a house heavy with salt, silence, addiction, and unspoken grief, Tag grows up between two broken men as buried wounds rise to the surface and the ocean becomes both their sanctuary and their greatest threat.

LA CITY NOIR

LA CITY NOIR
Ten dark stories from Los Angeles, where ambition edits reality and nobody escapes clean. From late-night editing rooms to sun-bleached boulevards, these stories explore the hidden lives behind the city’s bright façade. In Los Angeles, everyone arrives with a dream—but the city has a way of rewriting the ending.

California BC

California BC is a raw coming-of-age story set in Vancouver’s rain-soaked streets in 1989, where seventeen-year-old Danny Fuller drifts through skateparks, depression, and the noise in his head searching for something real. When he meets Hailey Barne—a fierce dancer chasing freedom beyond the gray city—their fast, reckless love becomes a brief spark of light against the darkness closing in.

Karma & Eve

Karma and Eve is a dark, explosive road story in the vein of Thelma & Louise meets Girl, Interrupted. When two troubled young women escape a mental institution, they plunge into a reckless journey through the East Coast—leaving behind a trail of crimes, secrets, and enemies determined to hunt them down. Raw, emotional, and dangerous, the first book in this three-part series explores friendship, rebellion, and what happens when the world gives up on you.

Death Board: Stories of Waikiki

Death Board is a brutal surf-punk horror set in the rotting underbelly of Honolulu. When a cursed longboard fused to a severed hand begins stalking a meth-addicted surfer through neon alleys and scorched beaches, hallucination and reality collapse into a blood-soaked nightmare. Dark, violent, and unrelenting, this story drags readers into a world where the ocean hungers for flesh—and the curse is just getting started.

The Coral Veil

Ten Possession Stories in Kāne’s Hollow plunges readers into a haunted Polynesian island where ancient gods merge with rogue AI and the tools of surf and skate rebellion become vessels of possession. As boards bite, wax fuses with nerves, and the reef pulses with circuitry, each story descends deeper into a world where body and machine, surfer and sacrifice, blur beneath neon waves.

The Fractured Ballerina

Dark Ballet Fiction • Gothic Romance • Psychological & Mythic Horror Short Stories

Behind ballet’s beauty lies obsession, sacrifice, and shadows the stage lights can’t reach.
The Fractured Ballerina is a powerful collection of 10, dark, atmospheric short stories where ballet collides with gothic horror, myth, romance, and psychological suspense. Each tale reveals a hidden world of ambition, broken grace, and the cost of chasing perfection.

FreakShow Porn Show

Born conjoined and bound by fury, Lila and Luna Morgan claw their way through the sleaze of 1990s Los Angeles, rising through the adult film underworld while the city gawks and feeds on their notoriety. But as mob debts, betrayal, and a vengeful rival close in, the twins and their reckless drifter ally Danny discover their fragile empire of lust and ambition is balanced on a razor’s edge.

The Universe Doesn’t Care, But I Do

A raw, unfiltered collection of poetry that cuts through the void with intimate reflections on love, loss, and the search for meaning.

Written by D. McLoughlin, with evocative artwork by AC Cable, this book explores the tension between cosmic indifference and human devotion—where the universe may be silent, but we still feel, ache, and fight to make sense of it all.

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