Mark Spears

Know your friends, but know your enemies better.... 1983: On a Monday morning, eighteen-year-old high school senior Tiffany Morgan is found dead in her school’s hallway in a pool of her own blood. With no witnesses, the crime goes unsolved for 40 years. 2023: Fifty-eight-year-old Titan Creek...

Jake Trout, age 30, returns to his hometown for his famous father’s funeral. Jake left home immediately after high school for college to escape his father’s literary name. Now that he has finally returned home and begins reviewing his father’s estate, he learns his father was more than a...

It was always there. Thirty years ago, Carter Springer left behind Devondale, a sleepy neighborhood in Lexington, Kentucky, for a big-city life in Atlanta. But he didn’t just leave behind his family - he also left behind his friends, a group the adults of the neighborhood once referred to as...

Upon entering the city’s most popular carwash, three friends are whisked away through a time portal that drops them back to 1983, where they have a run in with cosmic time keepers, old girlfriends, and a chance to change the future by changing the past....

In his first collection of stories, spanning the 1950s to present day, Mark Spears chronicles the changing family landscape, the lasting effects of family disputes, and the onset of artificial life. Each story, set in Kentucky, offers poignant insight into the lives of those who cherish growing...