Rhoshell Baker

Rhea Mowatt is thirty, broke, and exhausted. She works two jobs, counts nickels like prayers, and names the crack in her ceiling. In a moment of desperate dark humor, she posts a plea to the universe: "Punish me, please. Hurt me good." She asks for one million dollars, believing that the weight...

A dark, gripping revenge thriller about Xinli, a woman who survives the massacre of her family at age six and spends the next twenty-one years training to kill the men responsible. Now an assassin working her way up through a criminal triad, she hunts the council members who ordered the...

"The Introvert's Apocalypse" is a satirical and deeply relatable speculative novella narrated by an unnamed, middle-aged introvert. The story begins on a Tuesday when the world suddenly goes silent. There is no fire, no bang, no zombiesjust a complete cessation of all digital communication, mass...

A witty, absurdist parable about procrastination. At thirty-seven, a woman buys a beige couch that seems comfortableuntil it begins consuming her ambitions: learning Italian, going to the gym, and finally finishing her novel. Told with humor and emotional honesty, the story follows her struggle...