Reader's Choice Novels
Unforgettable stories chosen by readers who crave depth, tension, and truth.
NOVEL: UP CLOSE & CUNNING
Nonfiction Drama
ABOUT THIS STORY:
What happens when the life you built no longer feels like your own?
Before you reach for another self‑help book, stop for a minute.
You spent years building a life with everything you had — your love, your loyalty, your hopes, your work, your sacrifices. You crashed, you fell, you burned, and you kept going. Then one day, something happens that completely changes the trajectory. And then something else. And something else.
But what happens when people refuse to take responsibility for what they do — and somehow you, the one reacting to it, become the problem? When the narrative shifts, the blame lands in your lap, and you’re left trying to sort out what was yours to carry and what never belonged to you in the first place, it’s hard to know what the hell just happened.
Up Close and Cunning is a raw, honest, and often darkly funny journey through love, loyalty, sacrifice, scars, and the complicated business of finding yourself when everything you’ve built begins to unravel. There’s no checklist for that. No perfect answer. Sometimes you have to sit with it. Feel it. Live with it. Let it absorb into you.
And when you’ve given everything you had, lost more than you ever expected, and find yourself standing in the aftermath, one question remains: Are you playing it small?
NOVEL: HALF QUASI
Psychological Thriller
ABOUT THIS STORY:
Her mind has been hijacked and rewired to observe the world through a lens of pretense, mystique and alluring beauty, otherwise oblivious to the horrors that everyone else sees.
But nothing is more dangerous than the implications of detachment from self where time is lost and sufferance pains without reason. When Grace’s health takes a turn for the worse, reality exposes a cadre of disturbed alter-ego parasites conjured up from a labyrinth of deception.
In search for deliverance, Grace continues to hunger for the irreproachable alter-egos who squat on her nerves and crawl around her psyche at the twitch of a thought. Worse…, these creeps will do anything to keep her spinning through the clutches of neurosis in a beautifully delirious way.
About the author...
Kim McGill has a particular interest in the places where life stops making sense.
She writes about human behaviour, hidden motives, fractured relationships, resilience, and the uncomfortable truths people discover when everything they thought they knew begins to shift.
She is the author of Half Quasi, a psychological thriller where identity, perception, and reality refuse to stay neatly separated, and Up Close and Cunning, a raw memoir of upheaval, accountability, loss, and rebuilding.
On this website are more than 100 short stories published, ranging from ghostly encounters and rivalry wars to dark humour and observations about the human condition. Her stories aren’t about perfect people or tidy endings. They’re about what we discover and happens next.