“Just like all living things, we are rotting from the inside from the moment we’re born.”Teeth isn’t a typical vampire book and I’m okay with that because I’ve read a LOT of vampire novels in my reading life and most of them bore me at this point. Those vampires are either sexy whiny monsters or the...
Welcome to Neillsville small town America where nothing is quite what it seems and secrets lie hidden waiting to be uncovered. Kelli Owen takes us on a little trip behind the curtains where a bloodied finger will be discovered in a pair of jeans, a pool of blood in a long abandoned house, missing ch...
George is a veteran gravedigger. Will is just learning the ropes. Miss Lily needs a favor. And third time’s a charm for Rose.A nicely done short from Kelli Owen.
It started with the tent worms. Then came the government brain trust solution. Now everything has gone to hell and people are trapped inside their houses, afraid to go outside lest they get bitten by disease carrying black flies…or worse.I really liked this one from Kelli Owen. The characters and st...
You know how some authors just click with you as a reader? That no matter what they publish, you can find the good elements within it - even if others are lambasting it from pillar to post? Well, Kelli Owen is not that kind of author for me.This is my second read from her, and I found this novella t...
While on suspension, detective Mark Baker gets a letter from his sister, whom he hasn't spoken to in ten years. With pregnant girlfriend in tow, Mark goes to the isolated town his sister lives to check on her. Will he be able to break Sarah from her White Picket Prison?White Picket Prisons is a fair...
My first foray into the world of Kelli Owen was, sadly, not an enjoyable one. The writing itself was very solid, but the way her story was laid out felt rushed, incomplete and wholly unsatisfying. Yet several threads still managed to be fairly superfluous to the plot; while others which definitely w...
I'm a big fan of Apex Publishers, and this collection of short stories and poetry did not disappoint. I cannot recommend it highly enough to fans of horror and dark fiction.The theme of the collection is faith of all types: having faith or losing faith or finding faith; faith in higher powers, faith...