Bathroom Breaks & Bedtime Tales

Power isn’t earned. It’s engineered. In  Pawns and Rooks , a disgraced Washington power broker tells the story of the rising political star he built from nothing—only to watch him deny ever knowing his name when the scandal hits. Peter Merritt thought he was climbing the ranks on talent and ambition. He never realized someone else was paying the bills, arranging the meetings, and pulling the strin...

He planned everything. The chocolates. The backup sweater. The cash in case his card declined. The perfect entrée. The extra coffee to stretch the night just a little longer. Months of courage led to one beautiful evening filled with laughter, chemistry, and the fragile hope of something real. And then… it happened. First Date  is a dark comedy about over-preparation, romantic anxiety, and the one...

He flips the switch once. Then again. Twice for luck. In a rain-soaked railway switchhouse in 1897, Elias Grange clings to ritual as if it can hold back fate itself. Every pull of the lever is an act of penance. Every click is a promise that nothing else will burn. But grief does not obey order—and guilt does not rust away. As storms flood the tracks and electric light threatens to replace the old...

What happens when the “good kid” finally says the one word no one is supposed to say? Little Timmy has always used his good words. He says “please.” He says “thank you.” He apologizes to bugs. But when kindness is rewarded with cruelty — and polite words are used to excuse unkind behavior — something inside him quietly snaps. And one honest, one-syllable word changes everything. This darkly humoro...

Grady Hart rides into a town that should have stayed buried. Perdition is a place of dust, silence, and unfinished business—a town filled with ghosts of the living and the dead. Grady came searching for answers about the missing year that tore his life apart. Instead, he finds accusation, betrayal, and a past that refuses to loosen its grip. Saul Barlow was once his commanding officer. Once, a bro...

A father drives his autistic son home from school. Minutes later, he is arrested by ICE and disappears — despite having a valid court order protecting him from deportation. This is the story of Kilmar Abrego García: a husband, union worker, and father of three U.S.-born children who was legally allowed to remain in the United States… until the law was ignored. From suburban Maryland to a mega-pris...

What if mercy could be measured? In a near-future justice system, remorse is no longer a matter of interpretation. It’s quantified. Scored. Calculated. A number on a screen determines who deserves forgiveness — and who does not. When an elderly woman responsible for a catastrophic accident earns an almost perfect remorse score, clemency should be simple. Rational. Humane. Efficient. But grief does...

Long before his name became synonymous with wisdom, he was a slave. Long before his fables were taught to children, he was condemned for the power of his words. Death of a Storyteller  revisits the life and legacy of Aesop — not as a gentle collector of moral tales, but as a man whose mind could not be contained by chains, deformity, or fear. Executed for his stories, dismissed for his appearance,...

He learned to hold his breath before he ever learned to swim. Taught in a bathtub by a father who believed endurance was strength, a boy grows up measuring himself in silence — in seconds survived, in words unsaid, in grief swallowed whole. When the river takes his father in a quiet, almost polite accident, it leaves behind more than loss. It leaves a lesson: Don’t quit too early. Years later, the...

He didn’t mean to kill him. It was supposed to be a petty act. A small rebellion. A moment of anger aimed at a man who built his fortune on other people’s desperation. But one push becomes a fall. One fall becomes blood. And suddenly the apprentice is standing over the body of the mentor who taught him that life is a game you either win or lose. Reuben signed a contract believing ruthlessness was...

The war didn’t break him. It revealed him. Before the motel rooms. Before the hallucinations. Before the one-eyed shadow in the dark—there was the desert. The heat. The convoy. The explosion that tore through metal and bone and everything Odell thought he believed about duty. This is the story of the day everything changed. When leadership failed. When rage took over. When vengeance replaced disci...

He came home from war. But the war came home with him. Odell hasn’t slept through the night in years. When he closes his eyes, the convoy explodes again. The dust, the blood, the voice of the friend who didn’t make it out. In the dark corners of cheap motel rooms and empty highways, something waits for him—a one-eyed shadow that wears the shape of memory, guilt, and everything he can’t outrun. His...

Every morning, the children are taught to repeat the same words. A ritual meant to preserve memory. A safeguard against forgetting. But one day, they stop. What begins as a small, respectful refusal becomes something far more unsettling—a generational divide between those who remember fear and those who no longer carry it. As a teacher watches her classroom change, she’s forced to confront an unco...

A lonely stretch of highway. A voice on the radio that might disappear at any second. On a mountain pass buried in snow, a truck driver hears a broken transmission over the CB—someone is off the road, freezing, with a baby in the car. Company policy says keep moving. Common sense says don’t stop. But some decisions don’t care about rules, only minutes. Mile Marker 292 is a tense, grounded survival...

A U.S. Army captain leads his platoon through a city where every decision has a cost—and every apology buys a little time. What begins as a single, off-the-books intelligence tip turns into a pattern of success, praise, and quiet compromises, each one easier than the last. As results stack up, so do the omissions. Reports get cleaner. Questions get fewer. And the line between command judgment and...

People came for bargains. They left with something else. An estate sale opens in a quiet town, and the objects inside begin to spread—an antique mirror that smiles back, a grandfather clock that chimes before death, a violin that plays when no one touches it. Each item finds a new home. Each one carries a purpose. As accidents turn to patterns and patterns turn to certainty, it becomes clear the h...

She doesn’t disappear all at once. She’s erased inch by inch. In a fluorescent-lit office where silence is rewarded and credit is quietly stolen, rage has a sound—and it’s being turned down. Meetings end, voices vanish, and something in the building is feeding on what goes unsaid. When a doorway appears where none should exist, the truth comes into focus: this isn’t burnout, and it isn’t imaginati...

Every year, two brightly painted stages arrive in a quiet town, and with them come the shows. Loud voices. Simple messages. Clear sides. The crowds gather, the coins clink, and everyone leaves feeling certain they know who to blame. A boy named Elias stays behind after the shouting ends. What he sees when the crowd is gone changes the way he understands the performances, the colors, and the hands...

When a new government initiative promises to “restore trust” in journalism, most people don’t notice what’s being taken away—until it’s too late. As media outlets fall one by one under sweeping new standards of “accuracy” and “ethics,” a veteran journalist realizes the crackdown isn’t about truth at all. It’s about control. What begins as the quiet silencing of tabloids escalates into something fa...

Some people go to heaven. Some people go to hell. And some souls don’t fit anywhere they’re told to go. When Ozzy dies, even the afterlife doesn’t know what to do with him. Rejected by angels, refused by demons, and quietly redirected to a place no one talks about, he wakes up in Ozz—a glittering, broken realm built on music, myth, and forgotten rules. What follows is a dark, funny, and surprising...

He arrives with a passport, a return ticket, and nothing to hide. What follows is not an arrest, not a crime, and not a mistake—but a slow, methodical erasure. A routine border crossing becomes something else entirely: a series of small confiscations, unanswered questions, fluorescent rooms without clocks, and choices that aren’t really choices at all. Told from the inside, moment by moment, this...

Deliver Us From Evil is told through the private diary of Eleanor Graves, a woman who believes she is trapped in a secret marriage marked by cruelty, silence, and divine testing. Across a series of dated entries, Eleanor documents her prayers, her fasting, her growing certainty that God is guiding her toward freedom—and that no one else can be trusted to see the truth. As the days pass, devotion d...

The Woman in the Red Coat is a historical literary story set in the aftermath of World War II, told through the testimony of a man awaiting judgment for his role in Nazi Germany. As an Allied tribunal prepares to sentence him in 1950, Ernst Vogt chooses not to defend himself. Instead, he tells the story of a woman he encountered in Berlin in 1943—a woman who stood quietly outside a detention cente...

Loosely inspired by true events, the story follows a single consciousness from safety and certainty into extraction, separation, and consumption. What begins as a shared belief in meaning—we were made for this—slowly unravels as each stage of the process strips away comfort, identity, and choice. This is not a story about villains or escape. It is a story about purpose as something assigned, enfor...

In Tech Genius, a powerful billionaire becomes convinced reality is nothing more than a simulation, and that everyone around him is an NPC in a poorly written game. Armed with wealth, influence, and absolute certainty, he sets out to “break” the system — dismantling governments, manipulating media, destabilizing economies, and pushing the world toward the ultimate stress test. As warnings emerge i...