Certainty: and Other Mistakes

Broken people, vengeance, life, death, and that which comes thereafter define this collection of short stories from the twisted mind of Scott R.S. Raphael, author of A Little Slice and Spruce Road. From horror to mystery to crime to…comedy?…Certainty and Other Mistakes includes eight strange and discomforting tales of darkness and distress.

Includes the novella Cutaneous !

Cutaneous: A pair of police detectives investigates a brutal and bloody series of murders while the prime suspect, a self-obsessed tattooist, seeks to preserve his art.

Unknown, Unsaid: Following the death of his famous but estranged father, a son seeks to understand the man he never truly knew.

The Responsibility of a Remorseful Man: After contributing to the most devastating night of his boss’s life, a well-meaning but misguided employee tries (a little too hard) to make up for the harm he’s caused.

Next to Godliness: While bleeding out after a dish washing incident, a man seeks vengeance upon those who wronged him in life.

Answers: An interview with a convicted child murderer forces a man to face some terrifying realities.

Suicide of the Masses: Fearing for their lives, all members of the Earth’s population bury themselves and hide.

The MVP: An aging former hockey player tells his grandkids a story from his time in the game…a story he’d once sworn would die with him…

Certainty: While staying at an isolated Bed and Breakfast in the dead of winter, a man becomes obsessed with the mysterious wailing that emanates from the shed behind his lodgings.