The Human Variable: Dark Stories of Control, Obsession, and Identity Amazon.com: The Human Variable: Dark Stories of Control, Obsession, and Identity eBook : Joyce, Robert: Kindle Store

It’s a collection of short, psychological stories—some dark, some reflective, all a bit… off.

Not really a “binge read.” More the kind of stories you sit with for a bit.

Paperback out soon.

If you’re curious:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F832VRS5

#Writing #ShortStories #PsychologicalFiction #IndieAuthor

The one that gave him nightmares…
#Books #MustRead #emotionalreads #psychologicalfiction #BookRecommendations

Suburban noir be like:

white fences, PTA meetings, and absolutely feral secrets.

Name a book that mastered this vibe 🏡🔪

#DomesticNoir #BookSky #PsychologicalFiction

In Greyhound Therapy, a sheriff faces dangerous criminals, troubled passengers, and personal loss as every tense moment tests his courage, resolve, and determination to survive.

Pick up your copy and ride the tides of suspense. tinyurl.com/z44vrpaa.

#MysteryBooks #PsychologicalFiction #booksky

4.5-STAR REVIEW⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫: LUCIEN by J.R. Thornton harpercollins.bsky.social

👉LUCIEN is a precocious yet sizzling suspense story about art, truth, and the prohibitive cost of trying to be someone else. bit.ly/4sbjqCT #bookreview #booksky #psychologicalfiction #comingofage #friendship

open.substack.com/pub/dredging...

#LiteraryHorror #PsychologicalFiction #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #ShortStory

Set in Cornwall, ‘The Lies That Find Us’ is a saga of love, loss, loyalty, and the dangerous weight of untold stories.

amzn.eu/d/0cXI4tGJ

#kindlecountdowndeal #kindle #psychologicalfiction #cornwall #familysaga #booksky

Traveling nurse Elizabeth May has a promising new home in Santa Cruz. And another new identity. It's a pattern of reinvention for a woman escaping her traumatic childhood and hiding from the decades of notoriety and destruction that followed.Invisibility has kept Elizabeth safe. Until now. After all these years, someone sees her for who she is. Threat by threat, a vengeful stalker is dismantling Elizabeth's carefully constructed lifetime of lies. And no one in her temporary circle can be trusted--not her fleeting new love interest, not the supportive friend she knows only from online forums, and certainly not the police. They've never been there for her. As fear sharpens to terror, Elizabeth soon discovers something about her past that even she didn't know. The revelation could finally set her on a path of healing and redemption. Or, now alone in the dark, it could be Elizabeth's worst nightmare. Living a lie becomes a matter of life and death for a woman hiding from her past in a novel of mounting psychological suspense by the bestselling author of Jane Doe and The Hook.

📚 Bald-Faced Liar by: Victoria Helen Stone

Traveling nurse Elizabeth May has a promising new home in Santa Cruz. And another new identity. It's a pattern of reinvention for a woman escaping her traumatic childhood and hiding from the decades of notoriety and […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

Metro PD detective John Sampson stands in a crater in the middle of a DC street, calling in the bomb squad. Dispatch, this is Sampson. Contact the FBI and the ATF. We've got a suspected terrorist attack here. In Chapel Hill, NC... Alex Cross searches the apartment of a missing psychology grad student his own son Damon. Has following in his famous father’s footsteps made Damon a target?  From FBI headquarters, in police stations, on airplanes, and at murder scenes, the detectives track crimes committed hundreds of miles apart. It will take more than distance to weaken the partnership of Sampson & Cross. Instant New York Times Bestseller! In latest thriller from the world's most popular storyteller, detective partners Alex Cross and John Sampson are called to separate locations to investigate a pair of serious crimes. Stream Season 2 of the #1-rated Cross in February 2026!

📚 Cross and Sampson by: James Patterson, Brian Sitts

Metro PD detective John Sampson stands in a crater in the middle of a DC street, calling in the bomb squad. Dispatch, this is Sampson. Contact the FBI and the ATF. We've got a suspected terrorist attack […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

A Dual Inheritance by Joanna Hershon Joanna Hershon, author of "A Dual Inheritance," reads an excerpt from the book that takes place in Ethiopia in the year 1963 where a man is assisting a film shoot with his anthropological filmmaker mentor.  The full interview from a 2013 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts.  Photo: facebook.com/JoannaHershonAuthor/

📣 New Podcast! "A Dual Inheritance by Joanna Hershon" on @Spreaker #adualinheritance #anthropology #authorinterview #book #coc #conversationsonthecoast #ethiopia #familylifefiction #familysagafiction #jimfoster #joannahershon #psychologicalfiction #reading #sanfrancisco #sf

Book of the Day, February 14th – Other Fiction

Available for only $1.05 on Amazon Kindle! Get your copy below:

forums.onlinebookclub.org/shelves/book...

“The Smallest of Miracles” by Douglas Carpenter

#ComingOfAge #PsychologicalFiction #BookofheDay #Drama #FamilyFiction

Isla Thorne had a rough start in life. Orphaned young, she spent her formative years in a group home where she met her best friend, Eden Galloway. At sixteen, they decide to run away to LA...but Eden never makes it. It's been ten years since Eden vanished. And Isla's determined to find her. She begins at the last place Eden visited: the Corrigan mansion in Virginia. Eden claimed to have unfinished business there. Posing as an aspiring journalist, Isla insinuates herself into the wealthy family's home and begins searching for the truth. The more she digs, the more Isla discovers Eden isn't who she thought she was. Was she even a victim, or did Eden plan this all along? Desperate for answers and to keep her identity hidden, Isla finds an ally in one of the Corrigan sons. But as she wades deeper into this power-hungry family's secrets and lies, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a bloodline that's more lethal than loyal. From the author of Not What She Seems, Yasmin Angoe's thriller explores revenge, morality, corruption, and wealth as a woman sets out to uncover the truth behind her friend's disappearance and expose the powerful family behind it.

📚 Behind These Four Walls by: Yasmin Angoe

Isla Thorne had a rough start in life. Orphaned young, she spent her formative years in a group home where she met her best friend, Eden Galloway. At sixteen, they decide to run away to LA...but Eden never makes it […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

The perils of #indecision, rendered as #colorfield #art in a #dream state, in this short story in my #ShortFiction collection called "Fronds".
#Fiction #LitFic #Psychology #PsychologicalFiction #Surrealism
www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

An intimate, dimly lit bar with dark wood-paneled walls, small round tables, and simple chairs arranged closely together. Wine glasses and cocktails rest on tabletops beside small glowing candles, while shelves of liquor bottles line the back wall. The room is empty of people, quiet and enclosed, with warm amber lighting creating a private, inward mood. The space feels suspended in time, suggestive rather than explicit. Anais Kireiholm — nordic desire noir, psychological feminine fiction.

From Chapter 13—Where Viktor meets the ballerina
#anaiskireiholm #psychologicalfiction

" www.susanesage.com

#psychologicalfiction #quirky #roadtrip
#booksmakeperfectgifts "

The Good Father by Noah Hawley Noah Hawley, author of "The Good Father," reads an excerpt from his novel in which a doctor pontificates about how his son strayed down an unthinkable dark path.  The full interview from a 2012 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts. 

📣 New Podcast! "The Good Father by Noah Hawley" on @Spreaker #authorinterview #book #coc #conversationsonthecoast #fargo #fatherson #jimfoster #literaryfiction #noahhawley #psychologicalfiction #reading #sanfrancisco #sf #suspensethrillers #thegoodfather

Psychological Identity in Alice Feeney’s My Husband’s Wife Analyze how identity and memory collide as we examine the My Husband’s Wife ending explained in this literary review

In My Husband’s Wife, Alice Feeney explores psychological identity through unreliable memory and marriage. For Aussies, it gently nods to how distance and time zones test who we remain to each other. Worth the read. #MyHusbandsWife #AliceFeeney #PsychologicalFiction

4.5-STAR REVIEW⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫: THE SHARK HOUSE by Sara Ackerman ackermanbooks.bsky.social harpercollins.bsky.social

👉THE SHARK HOUSE offers a redemptive story tied to deep sea danger. bit.ly/4bLBxKa #bookreview #booksky #womensfiction #psychologicalfiction #historicalfiction #book #books

Devotion, obsession, and power blur when love becomes submission.
#DarkRomance #PsychologicalFiction #PowerDynamics #collegefiction #blackromance #freeebook #indieauthor www.hoopladigital.com/title/18110428

#Booksky #Books #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #NowReading #Bookworm #SelfActualization #PsychologicalFiction #SocialLife #AutobiographicalFiction #NoLongerHuman #JapaneseLiterature

#OsamuDazai
#JulietWintersCarpenter

‘No Longer Human’
by Osamu Dazai
Tr. by Juliet Winters Carpenter

The Lantern Between Them The Lantern Between Them - Kindle edition by Hale, Rowan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Lantern Between Them.

🏘️🕯️ In Arroyo Bend, people are practiced at reassurance. They know how to say that nothing is wrong, even when something clearly is.

The Lantern Between Them, by Rowan Hale

Free until January 15th

www.amazon.com/dp/B0GFWXC1FF

#literaryfiction #PsychologicalFiction

Check out my books at www.susanesage.com

Links also available at www.bookshop.org
and www.blackrosewriting.com

#psychologicalfiction #historicalromance #magicalrealism

The Rake Twins Incident Lab Log Record: The Rake Twins Incident Date: [REDACTED]  Location: [REDACTED]

What happens if identical twins raised in seperate environments?

Read the VHS log “The Rake Twins Incident”: medium.com/@WildEchoes/...

#microfiction #shortstory #psychologicalfiction #scifihorror #foundfootage #indiewriter #twins #experiment #twinflame

The Hangman Facing the ultimate trickster, I kept guessing until it no longer felt like a game.

You should make the correct choices. Or should you?

Read "The Hangman": medium.com/@WildEchoes/...

#microfiction #shortstory #existentialfiction #psychologicalfiction #indiewriter #darkreads #shortlit

MOMemory Chaser They’ve call me many things. A ghostfreak, a memory destroyer, a hunter of echoes.

I remember eveything and nothing...

Read "Memory Chaser": medium.com/@WildEchoes/...

#microfiction #shortstory #cyberpunk #psychologicalfiction #indiewriter #memory #loneliness #dystopianfuture

Maura and Her Two Husbands A Novel of Love and Consequence Exclusive Preview Maura and Her Two Husbands begins with a moment of discovery that should end a marriage—and instead opens it. When Maura learns what her husband ha…

Not every betrayal ends a marriage.
Some of them rearrange it.
A short excerpt from Maura and Her Two Husbands:

charlesharveyauthor.wordpress.com/social/maura...

#PsychologicalFiction #MarriageAndDesire #blackbooksky

Currently reading Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky.

Uncomfortable, bitter, brilliant—
a voice that argues with itself and refuses to be liked.

Some books don’t want your approval.
This one demands your attention.

#Booksky #CurrentlyReading #ClassicLit #PsychologicalFiction

A psychologically layered portrait of womanhood, repression, and self-recognition told through confessional prose and poetry. #BookReview #PsychologicalFiction #IndieAuthors #AmReading #ReaderViews buff.ly/3r3jGgi

Enon by Paul Harding Paul Harding, author of "Enon," talks about how the novel looks at the subject of grief in a deep way without being done clinically, through the eyes of the main character Charlie Crosby as he tries to survive the tragedy of losing his daughter.  The full interview from a 2013 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts.  Photo: paulhardingauthor.com.

📣 New Podcast! "Enon by Paul Harding" on @Spreaker #authorinterview #book #boston #coc #conversationsonthecoast #enon #grief #jimfoster #literaryfiction #loss #love #metaphysical_visionaryfiction #newengland #paulharding #prayer #psychologicalfiction #reading #sanfrancisco #sf #tinkers