James Kinsak: 19 books

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 pure or advancing our career, for hanging on vs....

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 father with a past, a possible sex abuser, a psych major...

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, would-be heroes to wannabe coke heads, his characters...

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 child as her own. Then strange things begin to happen.

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. Nobody stopping it. Should he?He makes a stupid decision.

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 phone. And that tiny part of him that still hopes,...

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 been farmed out to private corporations, and where...

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

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 years ago, something evil happened in the small mountain...

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.

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.

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.

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’s going to let that happen. Can this production be saved?

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