The Eleventh Ending: Works of Mr. Joe: 9

What if the ending you were handed was not the ending you had to keep? The Eleventh Ending is a strange, funny, emotionally sharp collection of speculative stories about burnout, boundaries, banned books, adulting, love, grief, and becoming human anyway. Inside these pages, a retired fraud investigator buys an honest scam. A school compliance officer becomes the missing ending of a banned book. A woman learns that anger is not a flaw, it is an alarm. A trapped girl discovers that one person's romance can be another person's horror story. A writer summons a demon and finds out supernatural help is better at copy editing than purpose. Blending weird fiction, magical realism, dark humor, literary satire, and emotional survival, Joseph Santiago writes stories for anyone who has ever felt too strange for the room, too tired to keep pretending, or too awake to let fear write the final chapter. Because some endings are not found. They are chosen. They are fought for. They are shared. And sometimes the eleventh ending is the life you become brave enough to claim.

Pagina's: 535, Paperback, Independently published