Author | Editor | Educator
PN0K0
Twisted Tales of Familiar Faces
Some strings were never meant to be cut.
Joseph Zimmerman Jr. has spent his entire life in the shadow of his father’s genius; raised not with warmth, but with fear. Fear was the key, his father always said. The only lesson that truly sticks.
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Rachel Horak Dempsey is a writer and editor of all things dark. Her debut novella, PN0K0, a sci-fi/horror retelling of Pinocchio, released from M4L Publishing on June 9, 2026. Her short fiction has appeared on TriQuarterly, Creepy Pod and in anthologies by Brigids Gate Press, Timber Ghost Press, Twenty Bellows and more. She is the winner of the Colorado Gold Literary Award, the Denver Women’s Press Club’s Emerging Writer Award, and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2024.