New Novelette Release: “In Good Company” by Nicola Kapron

If you love your stories dark, your doves dead, and your husbands murdery, have we got a story for you…

Title: In Good Company

Author: Nicola Kapron

Genre: Modern

Rating: Mature

Trigger Warnings: body horror, child abuse, death of a child (past), death of a parent (past), harm to children, suicide (past) (mentions of), violence (graphic descriptions), vomiting (mentions of)

Relationship: enemies to friends, friends to enemies (platonic), m/m, murder husbands

Character Features: bipoc, doctor, murderer, ptsd, serial killer, vigilante

Tags: attraction at first sight, drug addiction (mentions of), drug use (non-consensual), human trafficking (mentions of), imprisonment, kidnapping, past tense, pov third person limited, terminal illness (mentions of), war crimes

Teaser:

Haruki no longer remembered what had been going through his head the first time he’d killed. All he recalled was the sight of those he’d once loved with all the helpless force of a scared, scarred child covered in red and utterly still. He hadn’t felt grief or triumph when he realized they weren’t struggling anymore. He’d just felt—

Empty.

Better to be hollow than to despair.

Length: 29 pages/11,761 words

What’s Saturday without a little scare? Read your fill with In Good Company by Nicola Kapron!

Want more stories filled with dark feels? Nicola Kapron has got you covered! Check out The Act of Salvation and Campfire Stories!

This is the second story of February aligned with the month’s theme, “Storm’s Coming.” Our first, Lightbringer by boneturtle, also brings the eerie m/m feels. Check it out too!

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2023 Book Bingo: 7 Books!

"I'll wait a day or three to finish the extras," I said. "I'll savor the last few chapters," I said. Well, you can see how well THAT worked out.


I realized I kinda goofed up in a way, since I've decided NOT to treat "all books in a series" as "the same book," which means that reading Volume 2 of a book by Shisi isn't a new-to-me author, reading Volume 1 of a book by Shisi is, and I used Vol 1 on TBR (and Vol 2 isn't really on my TBR, since it only just came out, I was saving vol. 1 and read them both when I got volume 2). So, perhaps it's not the best match to a square, but oh well, screw it. I probably could have justified putting 2 in the TBR square (it was literally on the pile, for about two weeks - it's even in a picture I took in mid-January of my TBR) so...whatever, between the two, they cover those squares. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ANYWAY. Before I started Little Mushroom the question was, "read something new" (as in, Little Mushroom) or "reread the volumes of MXTX books I've got waiting." So now that I'm done with Little Mushroom, it's onward to read the three volumes of TGCF I've been stalling on because I hate the (original) Book 2 extended flashback so much that it's a huge slog to get through. I've given myself permission to, if not skim, at least not read it super carefully. I remember what happens and I don't like it and I want to get back to (original) Book 3.....!!!!