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Intimate portraits of Middle American resilience, unexpected twists, and quiet revelations. Small, tangible moments that reveal character.
In the heart of Middle America, ordinary people face moments that can quietly define or destroy them. This sharp collection of five stories — Places People Fall, The Thevenin Cipher, The Bar on Fuller Street, Seconds, and The Life and Death of an Unimportant Man — explores falls, hidden truths, regret, resilience, and the fragile line between survival and surrender.
Spanning 1774 to 1776, The Fading Darkness trilogy follows ordinary people — settlers, soldiers, and Shawnee — caught in a savage war where loyalty is tested, families are destroyed, and survival often demands crossing moral lines.
Gritty historical thrillers, telling real stories, set during the darkest days of the fight for independence.
A Novel In Development
In the final days of World War II, a squad of battle-weary American soldiers accidentally kills a Jewish prisoner while clearing a concentration camp. They launch a desperate race against time to find and save his wife before the SS can execute her, while confronting the horrors around them and the moral darkness the war has left within.
Zac Northup writes immersive, realistic, and unflinching fiction and nonfiction rooted in real experience, heritage, and the quiet strength of ordinary Americans. His work explores what it means to endure — through self-reliance, relationships, and perseverance. From the high-stakes historical novels of the Fading Darkness series and the gritty post-apocalyptic world of REMNANT, to sharp short stories and the upcoming American Averagist print journal, his narratives deliver gripping stories grounded in what it means to be an American.
In a fractured landscape marred by “The Strife,” a low-intensity insurgent war has become the grueling status quo. A5 Research Agent Fletcher Whitney is tasked with reconstructing the truth from a massive quantum core known as Big Blue. When Fletcher interrogates a mysterious hermit, he discovers a manuscript that shouldn’t exist: a perfect blueprint of the war written years before it began. Remnant explores the chilling intersection of AI, corrupted history, and the unrelenting war between good and evil.
In the final 24 hours of World War II, a squad of battle-weary American soldiers accidentally kills an innocent prisoner while clearing a concentration camp. They launch a desperate race against time to find and save the man’s wife before the SS can execute her, while struggling through the collapsing chaos of occupied Germany and confronting the horrors around them and the moral darkness within themselves.
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A cryptic box from a dead great-uncle. A beautiful best friend. Ancient ciphers, a dark library chase, and men willing to kill to stop them. Jimmy Thevenin’s ordinary life just became a real-life treasure hunt.
