After a sudden fire almost burns down one of their units, neighbors Wanda Lindstrom, Charlotte Murray, and Marcy Seele are thrust into immediate turmoil. But the trauma only worsens when a brutal murder is discovered within the ashes. As details of the homicide unfold, white nationalism and the various relationships to this controversial victim intertwine, heightening the women's complicated reactions. Wanda's hidden identity as a Jew and Marcy's decision to convert to Judaism cause an unstated terror to build as they each confront their underlying fears. Meanwhile, Charlotte's assumed ties to neo-Nazism and well-documented criminal background help make her a prime suspect, an automatic label she's powerless to overcome. Told from the women's vastly different perspectives, Detached explores an emotional fusion of their guilt, apprehension, and anger. While they each lead very separate lives, Wanda, Charlotte, and Marcy find themselves attached to each other in complex ways over the course of an unpredictable murder investigation.

These linked short stories tell the tales of Tony Aardehuis, a young Ontario police officer who centres more on the human puzzle than on crime and detection. Fraud, theft, blackmail: every small town crime short of murder drives these stories to conclusions that usually warm the heart. Along the way Tony struggles, like the rest of us, to figure it all out. The first Tony Aardehuis story was inspired by the Eastern Ontario ice storm of 1998 and the suggestion that natural disaster might double as a murder weapon. This constable meets life with a fine blend of curiosity, compassion and an occasional bent for bending the rules. Tony Aardehuis's adventures have been published in The Grist Mill, Bone Dance, and Storyteller Magazine, where he twice won The Great Canadian Story Contest. One story is also shortlisted for a 2003 Arthur Ellis Award.

When a pastry-obsessed ghost follows Audrey M. K. Summons back to her apartment, Audrey feels compelled to write the story-along with a few others she has collected. The resulting manuscript becomes The Places We Haunt, which a literary scholar discovers when Audrey dies. To the scholar's surprise, the pages magically fill with more stories from beyond the grave, so she publishes the book in order to put Audrey's spirit to rest. This collection of 13 eclectic dark tales takes place in museums, swimming pools, houses, restaurants, the cemetery, and outdoors in nature. The stories told are sometimes humorous, absurd, pensive, or cautionary. Those who tell them, don't even realize they're dead.

Gathering Storm Magazine, Year 1, Issue 3, is full of themed short fiction (always based on old sayings), interactive fiction, poetry, original artwork, and engaging Tidbits that tickle the mind. All of the stories in this issue reflect one of four selected themes by the Founding Editors: If at first you don't succeed, try again Accidents happen If you build it, they will come Famous last words

To help her friend Ashley stay home so she can participate in equestrian trials, Carly agrees to pretend she's Ashley on a student exchange trip to London, England. Carly (in the guise of Ashley) joins Lindsay, Kristen, Sienna, and Sonnet on the trip of a lifetime. But the trip will change them as well. Will the strong friendships they had before the trip survive?

"The Painting" is a 2018 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the June 2018 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http: //scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Abbey Faith Serena, Allan Onik, Ana Vidosavljevic, Andy Schenck, Beau Sherman, Cathy Porter, Cecilia Kennedy, Christina Basher, Donald Hubbard, Edna C. Horning, Elizabeth York Dickinson, Erin Farias, Francis Raven, James Mulhern, Janet Kuypers, JD DeHart, Kyle Cisco, Marc McMahon, Marcus Vance, Milton Ehrlich, Mitchel Montagna, Rae Monroe, Roger G. Singer, Ron Richmond, Suki Litchfield Kristin Litchfield, Teneale Moyer, Tom Bal, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Bennett, Fabrice Poussin, J. Ray Paradiso, Kyle Hemmings, Lavren Le'Clore, and Olivier Schopfer

Canadian Zine of Horror and Dark Fiction. Issue 4 features: an interview with author Matthew G. Rees Short horror stories by authors: Malcolm Timperley, Ken MacGregor, Cecilia Kennedy, Susan Cornford, Elana Gomel, Laura J. Campbell, Neil Whitfield, J.W. Wood, David Watson, Nick Petrou, Harris Coverley, H.T. Grossen, and DJ Tyrer. Drabbles by Elyse Russell, Miriam H. Harrison, M.M. MacLeod Poetry by M.M. MacLeod Quiet horror and dark fiction - short stories of the strange, eerie, or supernatural.