K J Pierce: 7 books

Article – approximately 4,059 words. The concept of family is a huge part of life in the United States South. Ancestors play as integral a role as current patriarchal / matriarchal figures who shape and groom their charges in a manner that is consistent with honoring and upholding the family’s...

Article – approximately 4,250 words. Poppy Z. Brite’s Exquisite Corpse is not a book for the faint of heart. Full of dark, vivid imagery, it paints a portrait of the shadowy underworld very few of us will, thankfully, ever see. The main setting is New Orleans, where old-world charm coexists with...

Relationships – any kind of relationships – are integral to human existence. Hearts soar with delight at the hint of first love and lay heavy and broken when the world crashes down. We love, sometimes unrequitedly so, hate when there’s nothing else left, and make stupid decisions because love...

Every author has their own tricks of the trade when it comes to writing and coming up with basic storylines. Some peruse newspapers or magazines, others use writing prompts; sometimes all it takes is a bit of creative thinking. But what happens if the usual tricks don’t work? You shake things up...

A year and a half ago, Ashley Wilkes Hard received an award from the mayor of New York City for being the NYPD's top homicide detective. Today however, due to an unfortunate psychotic meltdown at a local strip joint, he thinks--his penis talks to him. Resigned to his new station in life as a groundskeeper...

A woman finds herself bound to a chair following an argument with her long-term boyfriend. Left to her own devices, the woman must make peace with her own internal struggles before she is able to recognize that love and acceptance only come when she relinquishes her need for control.

She was withdrawn and hiding. He was lost and searching. One girl. One guy. One chance meeting.