A Trip to the Consulate is a chilling, multi-perspective literary political thriller inspired by real events. On a cold October day in Istanbul, a journalist enters a consulate for what should be a routine appointment. He never comes back out. Outside, his fiancée waits as hours stretch into silence. Inside, employees sense that something is deeply wrong. And far away, unseen hands ensure the machinery of power keeps moving.
Phil Dunwoody and the Terrarium of Doom
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September 11, 2025
Phil Dunwoody of upper York, but formerly of Kensington, (both facts which are, of course, thoroughly uninteresting and entirely irrelevant) had never lost a houseplant. This was not (mind you) because Phil was good with plants — perish the thought — but because all his plants were fake.
Second Story
Apr 16
The elevator hadn’t worked in four years. Cole knew this because he’d cased the Alderman Hotel eighteen months ago for a different job that never came together, walking its corridors while the building still had a security contract, a skeleton staff, and the faint institutional smell of a place waiting to be told it was finished. He knew which stairwell…
The Red Door
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November 12, 2024
Ansel Smith ran his hand through his grey beard, his fingers trembling as he stepped out of the night. The hallway that greeted him was impossibly long, impossibly white. The light — bright, clinical, overwhelming — seemed to seep from the very air, no source in sight. It wasn’t the kind of light that lit your way. No, this light felt invasive, like it …
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