Set in a fictionalized version of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Ho Springs is the story of a native daughter who returns home after 20 years in Paris to find her family in a shambles, their historic restaurant shuttered, the town itself in chaos. Ho Springs is told from several characters’ viewpoints, including a Parisian teenager and a meth ho, an Evangelical . . .
The story of Cirno Excalibur, who found a pole in his back yard, got struck by weird lightning, and went with his new talking pole to go fight the demons. . . .
Joe works the night shift at a government train corporation in New York. Jason monitors surveillance cameras in the San Francisco Bay Area for the Department of Homeland Security. The thing connecting them? The subject of Joe’s adoration and Jason’s surveillance: a college student whose casual purchase of a book from craigslist becomes the catalyst for an insane adventure across . . .
Welcome to Crescent Manor. Where the rent is cheap and your neighbours are dead to the world.—The Landlord Mark and Nathan Connor are twins, but in name only. There is little to connect them, save their current residence in Crescent Manor, an old building situated in the centre of a mid-sized city. They are unaware the tenants of . . .
Night Switch is the story of three characters. Joe is a night watchman (or something) who spends all his working hours playing video games and ridiculing his girlfriend in internet forums. Marin is his internet-only, Establishment-hating girlfriend, who buys a talking book that she mistakes for an incarnation of God. Jason is a slacker script-kiddie/blogger type who works for the [more . . .]
I’ve been a fan of Jones’ writing for a few years now. Her work is full of black comedy, suspense, memorable characters, and palpable atmosphere. 314 Crescent Manor is no exception.
Mark and Nathan Connor are estranged fraternal twins drifting through life. They know that something’s wrong, but can’t put their [more . . .]