The new novella from the author of Audible best-sellers In The Darkness, The Physics of the Dead, The Stone Man (shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year 2015) and I’ll Quit When I’m Dead, recommended by NBC/TODAY, CrimeReads, The Orange County Register, Booklist, and many more

Bruce is buying groceries when the world glitches.

One moment he is in a supermarket aisle, deciding between two jars of sauce and trying to pretend that counts as a plan. The next, the floor is gone and he is in falling through an endless chasm, one that glows with eldritch light. Arms pinwheeling, stomach lurching, the store wiped away as if someone hit delete, he tries to understand the strange wall markings and patterns that fly past. Above him there is only darkness. Below him, too…except for a purple light, a pinprick at first, hanging impossibly far away.

The distance stays wrong, the dark stays vast, and his options start to narrow. Nothing in his life has prepared him for this, except the habit of waiting things out. Bruce came here thinking the hardest decision would be dinner. Now there is only the wind, the distant light, and the first real choice he has had in a long time.

Luke Smitherd returns with his first short form fiction in six years, bringing his trademark blend of the bizarre and the unsettling. This Book Ends on a Cliffhanger is a novella that does not just ask what you would do, but what you have been avoiding.