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James Kinsak


Biography

James Kinsak writes fantasy, mystery, and horror stories that go into dark places and sometimes don't come out again.

Books

Survival Instinct    by James Kinsak
Price: $1.99 USD. 5980 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on April 23, 2012. Fiction.
When William’s sister begs him to visit, he travels into the northern interior to visit her and her family, thinking he’s on a kind of rescue mission. But in the snowy fields and basements of 100 Mile Ranch, the question is who, exactly, needs rescuing from what? A more reflective turn from an author who specializes in exploring dark places.
Box of Evil    by James Kinsak
Price: $1.99 USD. 6480 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on April 2, 2012. Fiction.
When Fitz meets a stranger in a bar after a very bad day, maybe he listens with a little too much credulity to the stranger’s take on how the world works. And maybe he’s just a little too open when the stranger makes a disturbing offer. From a master of unflinching walks on the dark side comes a modern take on a tale as old as humanity itself.
Mind Games Deluxe    by James Kinsak
Price: $4.99 USD. 30040 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on March 19, 2012. Fiction.
Get a full snootful of James Kinsak’s dark and gritty short fiction with the ten stories of his previous two collections, Mind Games and More Mind Games, collected together here in all their sharp-edged glory. From zombies to electronic stalkers, would-be heroes to wannabe coke heads, his characters will force themselves into your head and stake out some permanent territory.
More Mind Games    by James Kinsak
Price: $3.99 USD. 18580 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on March 4, 2012. Fiction.
Here are 5 more James Kinsak stories, filled with a dark emotional honesty – dealing with the conflicting desires we feel inside for love or money, for different sexual partners, for helping someone vs. protecting ourselves, for staying ethically pure or advancing our career, for hanging on vs. giving up. Plus zombies. What’s not to love? Contains “When I Lay Me Down”, “Floaters",and more.
One Night in Toronto    by James Kinsak
Price: $1.49 USD. 5740 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on February 29, 2012. Fiction.
Bobby wakes up to shattering sounds like eight-inch cockroaches are throwing dishes off the kitchen shelves in his third-floor apartment. But it’s not roaches; it’s a pimp and hooker fighting on the sidewalk below his window. Bad. Getting worse. Nobody stopping it. Should he? He makes a stupid decision.
Snort    by James Kinsak
Price: $1.49 USD. 2620 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on February 22, 2012. Fiction.
An eager special effects artist named Colby, a braniac B-movie actress named Missy Angel, a coke-snorting leading man, and…a giant latex nose with dripping mucosa. The director wants Missy to get snorted up the nose. There’s no bleeping way Missy’s going to let that happen. Can this production be saved?
Floaters    by James Kinsak
Price: $1.99 USD. 8200 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on December 13, 2011. Fiction.
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Easter Sunday, Ward gets a call from his estranged wife. She says she caught a glimpse of their two boys in Lincoln City where they were presumed drowned a year ago today. It has to be a cruel joke, except Ward can hear his wife falling apart on the phone. And that tiny part of him that still hopes, just has to drive out and see for himself.
When I Lay Me Down    by James Kinsak
Price: $1.99 USD. 6150 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on September 30, 2011. Fiction.
He lost just about everything when the “infected” swept through his ranch, killing his animals and turning his wife into one of them. But a man with grit never gives up. Especially on the woman he promised to love to the day he dies.
Driven    by James Kinsak
Price: $7.99 USD. 94990 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on September 30, 2011. Fiction.
An emotionally struggling lawyer, who’s just found out she might be adopted, goes looking for her birth family in an isolated Colorado ski town, only to be trapped there with a hulking serial killer who’s rapidly losing control.
A-Maze-Ment    by James Kinsak
Price: $1.49 USD. 3380 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on June 23, 2011. Fiction.
It was just a way for him and Caroline to get ahead for once in their lives. And if the stakes have become higher than expected, well, then they just have to choose, don’t they? Play or die.
Mind Games    by James Kinsak
Price: $3.99 USD. 20680 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on May 30, 2011. Fiction.
Welcome to five stories about messing with the minds of people who may or may not deserve it – a psychiatrist who can’t figure out exactly how he’s been made prisoner, a husband and father with a past, a possible sex abuser, a psych major in college, a teenage boy who’s done a horrible thing. They’re each in for a rough ride. Contains "Therapy", "E-Threats", "Basement Talk", and more.
Therapy    by James Kinsak
Price: $1.49 USD. 1900 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on May 27, 2011. Fiction.
The good doctor has a problem. He’s been trapped by a madman who claims to have wired electrodes into his brain. Which begs two questions: 1) Which of the many people with reason to hate the doctor is responsible? and 2) How the hell is he going to get out of this place?
The Four-Handed Corpse    by James Kinsak
Price: $1.49 USD. 1580 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on April 11, 2011. Fiction.
She’s just come from Psych class when the cops show her the half-cooked corpse of her aunt. It gets worse when they try to explain exactly how the aunt died.
Easy Time    by James Kinsak
Price: $1.99 USD. 5660 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on March 21, 2011. Fiction.
Hoochie has a zapper in his skull far more effective than any electronic ankle cuff and will be serving his time in the basement of the widow of the man he killed. What his delectable jailor has planned for him is both more benign and more horrible than anything he could have imagined. Definitely NOT easy time.
Basement Talk    by James Kinsak
Price: $1.49 USD. 980 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on February 18, 2011. Fiction.
Bad things happen in basements. Like lectures. And knives. And things aren’t always what they seem.
E-Threats    by James Kinsak
Price: $1.49 USD. 1500 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on February 15, 2011. Fiction.
You’re being stalked by e-mail and the stalker’s closer than you think.

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