Modern Noir Romances

Tough Love

Twelve stories about men and women who don’t walk away clean. Desire, betrayal, miscalculation — each one leaves a mark.

These are not puzzles. They are collisions.

Urban Noir

Cantina Psalms

A novel of San Francisco — its politics, its shadows, and the people who move between them. Tom Gresham doesn’t go looking for trouble. It recognizes him.

About Thomas Shess

Now I write fiction.

I’ve spent most of my life around stories that didn’t behave — newsrooms, cities that never quite told the truth, people who saved the best parts for last. Most are dead never knowing what hit them. Salutos and carpe diem.


Since 2011, I also publish a daily current events, retro arts and literary blog at PillartoPost.org