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Marlowe Kessler writes near-future stories about ordinary people living at the edge of technologies they didn't ask for and can't quite escape. The work sits between literary and speculative fiction — quiet on the surface, restless underneath, more interested in the moral weather of a choice than in the machinery that caused it. A former systems analyst, Kessler has a lasting fascination with the small failures that cascade into large ones, and with the strange intimacy of the tools we build to keep each other at a distance. Recurring themes include memory, inheritance, and what people owe the versions of themselves they've already outgrown. Kessler writes from a drafty house at the end of a dirt road, usually before dawn, usually with coffee going cold nearby.

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This short story collection is inspired by real headlines and news feeds, often pulled out of context. The stories within are purely works of fiction, and any resemblance to actual events, places, or real persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Seven short stories born from the local news feeds of Roswell, New Mexico. Together, they form a gritty, resonant portrait of modern-day America—unfiltered, unvarnished, and captured in all its dirt and glory.

- Corn-raised beef

- Dead in New Mexico

- Not a day without a bomb scare

- Of Aliens and Men

- Person of Interest

- Massage Parlor

- Crime Junkie

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