The world has gone silent and a young woman is watching humanity disappear.Sound vanished first; touch became forbidden. Focus, memory and time itself are slipping away like a dream disappearing in the morning.But she has something the world can't forbid: a clarity that lets her see what everyone else refuses to believe is happening.The rooftop gargoyles become her only companions; stone guardians watching over a city that's forgetting how to be human.Until her own skin begins to harden. Patches spreading like a contagion she can't stop. Human becoming stone.Her transformation takes her from a world alive with sound and touch to one where stone replaces skin and isolation replaces connection.Sometimes what we shed reveals what we truly are underneath.A haunting story that will make you question what it means to be human…and keep you reading until you discover what happens when there's nothing left to lose.

When the word "carcinoma" appears on her test results, she's thrust into a nightmare she thought her family history had prepared her for…but nothing prepares you for this.Waiting lists stretch into nightmares; a medical system offers impossible choices about her own body.But she has something cancer can't kill: a dark sense of humor and a refusal to play the grateful patient everyone expects.Then the surgeon says the words she's been desperate to hear: "Minor surgery. Quick recovery. You're going to be fine."Until the pathology report arrives. Minor becomes major. One surgery becomes two. Fine becomes a lie.Her journey takes her from the surgeon's table to the radiation room to a living room couch where she can barely recognize herself anymore.Some stalkers can't be shaken, no matter how many times you tell them to leave.A raw, unflinching story that will make you laugh through tears and scream at the honesty, because someone finally said what you've been thinking all along.

The anonymity of apartment living turns names into numbers, and 806 is watching her neighbour vanish in plain sight.Shaky hands. Fading voices. A world that shrinks until all that's left are grocery lists and euchre nights.But 806 has something age can't steal: sharp observation and a refusal to look away.Her silent neighbour, a woman who spends hours in her closet, starts bringing home a young man, a gamer who shouts and sings badly. Something feels wrong, but who listens to the concerns of people 'of an age'?Until the neighbour disappears; a woman’s body is pulled from the canal with bricks tied to her ankles.Tolerance becomes guilt. Silence becomes complicity.806’s journey takes her from comfortable invisibility to the uncomfortable truth that disappearing doesn't always happen naturally.

Secrets Untold, Stories of Love, Longing and Movin’ On

This collection of women's contemporary short stories will take you on a journey where decisions and deeds, thoughts and inner voices, and secrets people normally keep to themselves, are revealed with humour and candor.In Skinny and Unavailable, a single mom offers the reader simultaneous translations of her true feelings as she discovers her boyfriend’s attention seems tied to her weight and availability. In the title story, the main character runs away with a cowboy and shares the secrets she learns about herself through her infidelity. Sorrow and Dust looks at a woman coping with the loss of her best friend, while Gravity describes the downside of getting old and still being crazy in love.Secrets Untold will make you laugh at the audacity, gasp at the honesty, and recognize yourself in every unspoken truth—stories you'll read in one sitting and think about for days.