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.

In the sterile quiet of their lab, a prototype stirs. A hybrid of machine and something terrifyingly close to human, built to prove that mortality has a cure. But the closer it inches toward life, the more it seems to have a mind of its own.

And it has been watching.

When creator and creation collide, Joseph finds himself trapped between the father he desperately wants to please and a prototype that may know him better than he knows himself. No one who gets too close is safe.

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“A sci-fi horror fairy tale retelling that is at once brutal and tender, PN0K0 is a brilliant debut." -Angela Sylvaine, Stoker-nominated author of The Dead Spot and Cold Snap

"With shades of both the original Pinocchio and Frankenstein, this frightening novella brilliantly explores obsession and science taken beyond the limits of reason." -A.C. Wise, Stoker awarded author of Wolf Moon, Antler Moon and Ballad of the Bone Road

"PN0K0 is a bloody and chilling page-turner that confronts what it means to be a parent, child, a sibling—human being—in the digital age. Reader, keep your eye on Rachel Horak Dempsey." -Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia