C.E. Albanese

"Actual Stop"

The US Secret Service has a zero-fail mission. But what happens when an agent does fail? Published in Mystery Weekly Magazine, August 2021.

"Potashe Preserve"

A father. A son. A legendary buck. And a secret buried deep in the woods. When Russ drags his reluctant college-aged son Eddie into the frozen backcountry of the New York–Pennsylvania border to hunt a mythical fifteen-point whitetail, the trip is supposed to be about healing — a chance to build new memories after the death of Eddie's mother. But Potashe Preserve has a reputation, and the locals who know its secrets will kill to keep them. What begins as an awkward father-son hunting trip becomes a brutal fight for survival — and Eddie will need every ounce of grit he has to make it out alive. "Potashe Preserve" appears in Behind the Shadows