Far From Home by Matthew Salinas

This is a collection of three previously published short stories by Matthew Salinas. Includes Beyond Repair: Bill works full-time, plays by the rules, and still drowns in debt. When the final notice comes, it’s not a court summons—it’s a knock at the door after dinner. The collection agency doesn’t want money. They want blood. Flesh. Pain. And they want it now. Lucas, the man sent to collect, never wanted this job. But in a world where the cost of living is your soul, he’ll do anything to keep his wife and daughters fed—and safe from the same fate. As Bill is dragged into a nightmarish system where debt is paid in gore and suffering, Lucas must confront the horrors he's become complicit in. Beyond Repair is a razor-edged Splatterpunk novelette drenched in violence and dread, but pulsing with heart. Beneath its crimson-soaked surface lies a chilling reflection of real-world wage slavery, predatory debt, and the human cost of survival. For fans of visceral horror with a conscience—this is capitalism with the mask torn off. SHED: Locked in a decrepit shed in an undisclosed location, Ryan wakes to blood, ropes, and silence. His captor has no name and a face that remains hidden. With every brutal hour, the torment deepens, and answers remain shrouded in darkness. But pain has a voice, and in its screams, Ryan begins to unravel a truth more monstrous than his suffering. SHED is a descent into hellish isolation, where revenge festers and desperation gnaws like rats in the walls. As the line between victim and participant blurs, and the universe offers no mercy, the real horror emerges—not from within the shed, but from what lies beyond it. For fans of transgressive horror, cosmic dread, and the unflinching gaze of a world that simply doesn't care—SHED doesn't ask for your comfort. It eviscerates it. SCREAM: What happens when you ignore your nightmares? Are they just bad dreams or are they trying to warn you? Who can say, but Jules doesn't have the luxury of ignoring them anymore. There's something ancient and ineffable on the loose, and it's not going to go quietly... What started out as a class assignment has turned into something far more sinister and now Jules is faced with the living incarnation of their recurring nightmares. When an ancient cult holds its ceremony at the nearby docks, it seems like the perfect thing to investigate for their journalism class, but it turns out to be anything but. For fans of cosmic horror, first person POV, and Lovecraftian tropes.