"The Soft Spot" is on Kindle KU and in Paperback.
The restaurant looked clean.
White paper on the tables. Hot coffee. Desserts under glass. A respectable little place tucked behind a theater.
Vinny knew better by the end of his first shift.
The owner smiled through everything. The chef ruled the kitchen like a filthy little king. Regulars grabbed waitresses, laughed it off, and ordered another drink.
After closing, the coke came out. The affairs stopped hiding. The room belonged to whoever was left inside—and nobody was coming to stop them.
Vinny sees all of it.
He tells himself he is different. That he is the only one still bothered.
Then the restaurant gives him room to prove it.
Every shift gets uglier. Every night follows him home. And when Vinny finally stops watching, The Soft Spot gets exactly what it has been asking for.
Some rooms are not haunted.
They are staffed.
"The Spiralizer" is on Kindle KU and in Paperback.
The Soft Spot looked clean. White paper on the tables. Coffee hot. Desserts under glass. A polished little restaurant tucked behind a theater, the kind of place where customers came to feel civilized for an hour before going home. Vinny, a budding fiction writer, knew better by the end of his first shift. The owner smiled through everything. The chef ruled the kitchen like a filthy little king. Regulars put their hands where they didn’t belong. Waitresses cried in service stations and went right back to pouring coffee. After closing, the room changed hands, and the people left inside did what people do when they know nobody is coming to stop them. Vinny sees all of it. The jokes. The grabs. The coke. The affairs. The cheap little humiliations everyone calls "part of the business." He tells himself he is different. He tells himself he is the one person in the room still bothered by what should bother everyone. But the longer he works at The Soft Spot, the more the place gives him room to practice the worst parts of himself. Every shift gets uglier. Every night follows him home. Every person in the restaurant becomes part of the same dirty machine. And when Vinny finally stops watching, The Soft Spot gets exactly what it has been asking for. Some rooms are not haunted. They are staffed. This experience feels like a scene from a true crime novella, with every shift resembling the dark twists found in thrillers. Vinny finds himself entangled in a narrative that echoes the themes explored by V Le Chenz, a writer known for weaving philosophical elements into his literary fiction.
"Every Good thing Has a Body Under It" is on Kindle KU and in Paperback.
In a world where no one is honored while they are alive, every life is measured only after death.
The Legacy Accolades Archive was built to protect truth from vanity. When a person dies, the system counts what can be proven and seals the record forever.
Vinny DeCarlo trusts the system.
Then his father dies.
The official record says Vincent DeCarlo Sr. left behind twelve verified contributions. Clean. Reasonable. Exactly what Vinny expected from a man he never fully understood.
But inside a storage unit, Vinny finds a card catalog filled with six hundred names: people his father helped before they became measurable. Before the certifications, placements, repairs, protocols, and records the Archive could recognize.
People who almost quit.
People who almost vanished.
People who needed ten more minutes.
Now Vinny has to confront the flaw in a perfect system.
The Archive can count the good thing.
It cannot always see the body underneath it.
Every Good Thing Has a Body Under It is a sharp speculative novella about legacy, invisible labor, fathers and sons, and the people who hold the world up without ever getting their names attached to it.
COMING SOON!
Old Money, Cold Blood: Greenwich
A fictionalized true crime occult thriller
Old Money, Cold Blood: Greenwich is not about wealth. It is about what wealth, silence, and reputation can hide. Vincent Vale grows up middle class in a world of mansions, secrets, violence, and old names, close enough to see the shine but never close enough to belong. What he finds instead is something darker: murder, family horror, occult influence, and a pattern no one wants spoken out loud.
First, Vincent tells it in his own voice—raw, funny, unstable, and dangerous. Then his son Jake steps in and starts pulling the pages apart like evidence. What looked like memory becomes confession. What looked like family history becomes something much worse. Greenwich is a short, hard thriller where true crime, horror, and the occult collide—and once the truth starts moving, it does not stop.
Epigraph
My father was a killer.
His father may have been one too.
I found out the hard way that some things run in families.
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The First Face
Vinny DeCarlo was hired to clean out a dead animation studio.
He found a room that was never supposed to exist.
Behind a false wall inside Vesper Lantern Studios, Vinny discovers a hidden archive tied to Elias Dorian, the legendary founder of The Dorian Company. The boxes contain old notes, restricted images, strange religious records, and one file marked with the name of Boone Keller, a beloved action star with no obvious reason to be there.
At first, Vinny thinks he has found a secret.
Then the secret begins arranging itself around him.
The deeper he goes, the more the archive seems less like forgotten paper and more like a path someone built for a reader who would not stop. And by the time Vinny understands that some faces should remain unseen, it may already be too late.
The First Face is a chilling supernatural thriller about fame, faith, buried evidence, and the horror of finding meaning where no sane person should.
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent”
Calvin Coolidge