Mikhail's wife is dead. He knows this, and he remembers it. Not only does he remember the event, he remembers all the little events that led up to it that conspired together to take her.
From the sea of zombie-like Reps that exist between their outback home and the nearest hospital, to the totalitarian Reamer police that guard against the forces of Celena and her hound, Mikhail lives in a dark, dystopian future with threads that tie back to events in the present day.
And he can change it all, if he has the will.
Twelve amazing short stories from Engen Books' top talents, including internationally best-selling horror icon Paul Carberry, Erin Vance, and Matthew LeDrew.
Paul Carberry is a huge proponent of the horror genre and its place in literature. He has two children, daughter Dana and son Rick, with his wife Leah.
Paul has published three novels with Engen Books: Zombies on the Rock: Outbreak, Zombies on the Rock: The Viking Trail, and Zombies on the Rock: The Republic of Newfoundland. He has also had numerous short stories featured in publication, including The Light of Cabot Tower, Into the Forest, and Halloween Mummers.
Matthew LeDrew holds an Honours Degree in English from the Memorial University of Newfoundland with a minor in Anthropology, and studied Journalism at College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville, Newfoundland. He was honoured to be a jury member of the 2018 NLBA awards.
He has written twenty novels for Engen Books: the ten book Coral Beach Casefiles series, The Long Road, Cinders, Sinister Intent, Faith, Family Values, Jacobi Street, Touch Your Nose, Infinity, The Tourniquet Reprisal, and Exodus of Angels, the latter three of which with co-author Ellen Curtis.
He lives in Chapel Arm, Newfoundland.
Since 2007 he has traveled all over Canada promoting his work as well as teaching seminars on writing and publishing. He also helps young Newfoundland authors become published through Engen Books.
Matthew Daniels is an author currently living in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
He has over a dozen writing credits both locally and internationally, and his work had been featured in bestselling anthologies on five separate occasions. Stories include ‘Grey Anatomy’ in Paragon, ‘Where With All’ in All Borders are Temporary, and too many stories to count in the From the Rock series.
His first novel, Diary of Knives, was released in January 2021. Interstitches: Worlds Sewn Together is the first collection of his short fiction.
Erin Vance is an editor and a graduate of the Memorial University of Newfoundland English Honors Program. She won the Arts and Letters competition when she was just 14 years old in 2007 with her short story, “Something White.” She is featured in the Nelson Literacy 7 Homegrown (Newfoundland Edition) with her poem “Rough Draft.”
Erin wrote her Honors thesis paper, Song of the Mockingjay on exploring the nature of Katniss Everdeen’s agency in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series. She is creative, spiritual, and loves reading, writing, and anything to do with words.
Erin is the co-editor of the From the Rock anthology series, which highlights Newfoundland talent in genre writing.