The Akerman Motel/Apartments per week    by Pablo D'Stair
Price: Free! 28970 words. Published on May 14, 2012. Fiction.
Laying low in a cold water flat, petty crook Trevor English inadvertently discovers the truth behind a violent crime. Taking no action against the perpetrator, he is nevertheless accused of holding the information over their head. Despite his non-involvement, Trevor soon finds he must either play fall-guy in the crime or pay out someone else’s blackmail to keep his own past from being raked up.

Carthago Delenda Est    by Pablo D'Stair
Price: Free! 72650 words. Published on April 1, 2012. Fiction.
Ten year old runaway Dimitri Kaske lives in transit between train stations, subsisting on petty theft and spare change from commuters. Suffering a concussion after a fight, he learns that case workers have posted his description throughout the transit system. His incoherent state leads to feelings of betrayal and intense persecution, as well as to increasingly violent acts of self-abuse.

Candour    by Pablo D'Stair
Price: Free! 43520 words. Published on March 30, 2012. Fiction.
An unnamed man, rapidly dying of a nightmarish disease, secludes himself in his apartment rooms. His only companion is his cat, Alastaire Cello, who he determines to keep unaware of his impending death.

Leo Rache.    by Pablo D'Stair
Price: Free! 11560 words. Published on February 7, 2012. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Tracing a year in the life of Leo Rache, an aimless shoplifter-turned-poet, and drawn heavily from author Pablo D'Stair's personal experiences, this novella is a blunt, intimate investigation of the minutia that birth one individual's desire to create.

The Unburied Man and The People Who Use Room Five: two horror novellas    by Pablo D'Stair
Price: Free! 31640 words. Published on January 29, 2012. Fiction.
Two horror novellas by Pablo D'Stair (author of "they say the owl was a baker's daughter: four existential noirs")

VHS (part one)    by Pablo D'Stair
Price: Free! 30650 words. Published on August 15, 2011. Fiction.
NOTE: Part One only A clerk named Desmond Argyle works in a franchise video rental store during the last weeks the store will receive VHS movies as its primary rental and retail product before restocking with DVDs. Think something of a cross between Nausea, The Tenant, and Hunger--an impressionistic novel of banality confronting the inexorably transitory nature of the world and self-identity.

Helen Topaz, Henry Dollar    by Pablo D'Stair
Price: Free! 28740 words. Published on August 6, 2011. Fiction.
Manufacturing threats of blackmail against himself, petty crook Trevor English convinces his lover, Helen, to pay off his fictional victimizer. But when Helen suggests that an investigator be brought in to find out who was behind the extortion, Trevor finds he must either maintain his intricate deception or end his affair—either option capable of spinning his life wildly out of his control.

Mister Trot from Tin Street    by Pablo D'Stair
Price: Free! 29360 words. Published on June 14, 2011. Fiction.
Wynol Trot—a family man and high school teacher with a pornography habit he takes pains to keep hidden. To Trevor English, the idea is simple—threaten Wynol with exposure unless a modest sum is paid. But when the blackmail doesn’t go through, Trevor realizes his own past makes him more vulnerable than his would-be victim—and that Wynol Trot is more amoral than he could have imagined.

this letter to Norman Court    by Pablo D'Stair
Price: Free! 28820 words. Published on June 14, 2011. Fiction.
When petty crook Trevor English is offered two thousand dollars to deliver a letter across the country, the choice seems fairly simple—money up front, no way he can go wrong. And when he finds himself in possession of correspondence several parties would pay to get their hands on, the choice seems even simpler—take what he can, while he can, from who he can and disappear.

man standing behind    by Pablo D'Stair
Price: Free! 21380 words. Published on May 22, 2011. Fiction.
After leaving work one evening, Roger is accosted by a man at gunpoint. Refusing to reveal his motivations and unmoved by any attempt to pay him off or plead for release, this man forces Roger to accompany him on a series of macabre errands over the course of the night.

Seven Stories About Working in a Bookstore    by Pablo D'Stair
Price: Free! 16190 words. Published on May 22, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Memoir based fiction of a young man's days of petty theft at a strip-mall bookstore.