Saintstown

Caleb's life has spiraled out of control ever since the day a stranger sank her teeth into his hand. Drifting from port to port in a haze of blood and guilt, he eventually lands in the city of Saintstown and is promptly arrested for murder. But the night before his execution, Caleb is offered both freedom and a job by the enigmatic Mr. Faulkner.Faulkner says he can teach Caleb to control the animal raging inside him - but what must Caleb sacrifice for the guidance that Faulkner offers? Kit Walker is a genderqueer writer of horror, crime fiction, and dark sci-fi/fantasy. Born and raised in Canada, they've recently been shipped overseas to Newcastle upon Tyne in England. A series of interweaving novelettes and short stories, all set in a fictional Gilded Age city. Saintstown is a city born of vice, greed, and corruption - and dark things walk its streets.

Burgling a quarantined ship should have been easy money. It wasn't. Now Danny and Eli, Saintstown's pettiest thieves, have a traumatized former captive on their hands and the city's most powerful fixer breathing down their neck. And that's just the start of their problems.NOTE: This story features content that some readers may find disturbing. Kit Walker is a genderqueer writer of horror, crime fiction, and dark sci-fi/fantasy. Born and raised in Canada, they've recently been shipped overseas to Newcastle upon Tyne in England. A series of interweaving novelettes and short stories, all set in a fictional Gilded Age city. Saintstown is a city born of vice, greed, and corruption - and dark things walk its streets.