Mark Hill

Books

Ephemera by [Mark Hill]
Rabbits are stalking a drunk driver that ran over one of their kind, an old and forgotten video game is sending strange messages to the man playing it, and a forgotten silent film is the key to unraveling a conspiracy hatched by fringe theosophists. These fourteen stories are about nobodies encountering the strange and surreal.

Ephemera is available for Kindle for $2.99, and in paperback for $8.00.


Working at an amusement park hasn’t been everything Casey dreamed it would be. Sure, she gets to threaten obnoxious guests and sneak slugs of whiskey, but her former best friend is avoiding her, she’s the only employee without a plan for post-high school life, whenever she steps foot in the Haunted House she starts bleeding and hallucinating, and cleaning up vomit full of half-digested hot dogs is disgusting. Oh, and her family is drowning in medical bills while a disembodied voice that sounds like a thousand nails being pounded into her skull keeps popping up to tell her that life is meaningless. Maybe she should lead with all that, but it’s sort of awkward to bring up.

So as much as Casey would rather sleep her empty days away, she ends up investigating the cold case of a little boy who vanished in the very same room of the Haunted House that’s making her see visions of the end of the universe. She just wants to convince herself that she isn’t going insane, but over the course of the summer Casey will uncover a conspiracy, reckon with the consequences of her self-destructive habits, help her mother deal with a serious illness, find meaning in a life she sees as meaningless, and eat way, way too much cotton candy. Just, like, a ridiculous amount. It’s really bad for you, don’t eat as much as Casey does.

Dead Star Park is available for Kindle for $2.99, and in paperback for $8.00.

Confessions of an Average Boy by [Mark Hill]

Alexander Turner just burned down his high school, but he’d be the first to tell you that he’s actually a really nice guy. Arson’s okay when you’re doing it for love, right? See, there’s this amazing girl named April, but she’s dating this rich jerk named Chet, which is ridiculous because Alex and April had a ton of fun ruining their school’s Late October Costume Dance and sneaking into a hipster bar and doing everything else pop culture taught Alex that boys should do to win over girls. But Chet’s part of a yacht club and drives a BMW, and how’s an everyday, down-to-Earth guy supposed to compete with that?

So he committed a felony, obviously. Okay, there was a little more to it than that—his heart was broken, his fellow students made him an outcast just because he happened to completely ruin a couple parties, and his friends were being total jerks for what he swears is no good reason. But seriously, he’s just a regular dude, as his own confession will happily explain to you. I mean, what other possibilities are there? That he actually doesn’t have a clue how to treat girls properly? That his entire story is a downward, self-destructive spiral of someone entranced and misled by the toxic modern attitudes towards love that young guys are taught? That Alex and April aren’t star-crossed lovers, and that he’s just a dumb, self-centred teenager who’s fumbling his way through misguided attempts to get in her pants? Of course not. He’s just an average boy.

Confessions of an Average Boy is available for Kindle for $2.99, and in paperback for $7.50.

Little Lost Things by [Mark Hill]

Clones are being used as suicide bombers in an occupied Tehran, a boy suspects that his loving parents intend to kill him on his thirteenth birthday, and a house is just, like, ridiculously haunted. This collection of fourteen short stories might make you laugh if you share the author’s sense of humour, might make you cry if you cry easily, and will probably keep you entertained for a couple of hours. There’s science fiction, fantasy, horror, comedy and miscellaneous. The only thing the stories of Little Lost Things have in common is that they don’t have much in common at all. But that counts for something, right?

Little Lost Things is available for Kindle and Kobo for $2.99, and in paperback for $7.00.

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