The haunted house is gone. We have the open-plan office now.
In this genre-defining collection, Padraic Maher Cepek explores a new kind of dread: the horror of a generation raised on collapse. These aren't stories about vampires or phantoms; they are stories about the systems that erase us.
From a teacher gaslit by mass shooter drills to an influencer whose digital double lives a better life than she does, Milk Is For Ghosts reveals that the scariest things in modern life aren't hiding in the dark—they are hiding in the Terms of Service.
"A haunting, essential archive of modern anxiety."
THEY'RE STILL WRITING ME (Yes, Me—The Book)
"My author tried to write grief with precision. Turns out, grief writes back."
Hi. I’m the book. And no, I’m not finished. Don’t let the printed pages fool you—I’m still revising myself in the dark when no one’s looking.
I was supposed to be about recovery. About clean arcs and structural integrity. Instead, I’m a tangle of footnotes, corrupted files, and characters who refuse to stay deleted. Inside me, you’ll find a house that edits its own floorplan and a relationship unraveling in the margins.
I’m not linear. I’m not polite. And I’m definitely not stable. But I’m honest.
"If you like your fiction metafictional, emotionally feral, and narrated by the story itself—turn the page. Not to begin, but to continue."
THE SHAPE OF THE SILENCE Fifteen Stories. One Grief.
"Grief moves through walls, language, and breath."
In The Shape of the Silence, memory becomes a haunting and silence becomes a character. These lyrical, fractured fictions explore what happens in the aftermath of loss—when the dust won’t settle, when the room remembers more than we do, and when the moon falls without warning.
From a father playing a board game with a daughter who might already be gone, to a child cataloging objects after his sister disappears, this collection blends magical realism and mythic structure to map the places where the dead are almost—almost—within reach.
"These stories do not offer resolution. They offer breath. Ritual. Memory. Echo."