J.L. Shojosh

Nine-tenths of the world’s population is dead. A biological scourge - a dark blight swimming through human veins - was to blame....

Dr. Kohms is used to listening to people talk about the pieces in their lives that aren’t playing well together. But does he know his own life as well as he thinks he does? Does anyone truly know what their partners, dependants, or friends are up to? Listen to find out more....

A collection of short stories: Black’s Lonesome Path, Highway I-28, Dear Diary, Deep Sleep, Shells and Shadows, The Field and What the Dead Don’t See. Listen to find out more....

In this psychological short thriller, an elderly loner, who spends most of his days at home, becomes the subject of a home invasion. A young and unmasked man with a gun soon arrests the elder to a chair, beginning a daylong ordeal that both men will never forget....

Lana undergoes a near death experience. Michael’s life, as a baby, is just beginning. What tethers together the two lives? This pseudo-paranormal short story has a few mysteries that beg to be unpacked....

Rolana and her father escape a higher dimension in order to free themselves from an oppressive regime. However, no sooner would their new life come to a start, the pair would be separated....

James is tossed into the flames, so to speak. He has a pair of masked assassins on his tail. After finding himself having been teleported to a different realm, James finds refuge in Grace’s willingness to rebel against the Shadow Clan - an oppressive regime....

Nothing ever happened around Aiden's Loch or the rural town of River Fall. Though, unbeknownst to the human inhabitants of this quaint cadre, a hidden community of alter-dimensional beings known as Roji and nayaps live among them....

I - "Boy": A young boy with special abilities to see a world beyond the veil, a realm teeming with shadow formed beasts, undergoes an emotional roller-coaster ride in this coming-of-age short story tale....

Humans are mostly made of water. Tessa is mostly made of molten iron. The petite firefighter had always grown up fearful of her abilities, and went through life harboring this deep secret. Until her encounter with a strange man, Tessa wasn’t sure what kind of freak she was....

In a world where an exclusive cadre of android-leasing pilots, the Relevant, is contracted by various interests to war over the world’s resources....

Ever loved and lost? If presented with the chance to get it all back, would you consider it? Zach is a novelist who’d purposefully sequestered himself to a cabin in the lofty pine-filled hills....

The allure of immortality has always fascinated humanity. What happens when simulated technology allows anyone with enough funds to access a world devoid of sickness or death? Henry and Dale are two brothers that wade through the complexities of infinite time....

A paraplegic war veteran Warner, often buried in his own sweat, urine, and feces, is given a new lease on life. Warner had thought the idea of renting out his body to a tourist from another dimension as ridiculous as him being able to walk again. Yet, walk he did....

This is tale about how guilt acted as a powerful enough force to transport Mark Rose to a world of beauty, mystery, and monsters. Trouble is knowing what or who the true monsters are....

Entrapped within the luxurious confines of the Vertico condo complex, together with Ron and the rest of the staffers, expect to be dragged into a world of unnerved and unnerving characters....

In this psychic magical-fantasy short story tale, Amanda, Jeff, and Lukas travel to South America for their vacation. Later on, after an unfortunate incident leaves the trio stranded on a remote and vast stretch of land, they’re forced to find their own way back home....

Delve into the unknown, as you too begin to question the nature of reality. This short story tale is an emotional roller coaster ride, with poignant, yet subtle inferences to notions of technocratic neo-feudal-like societies....