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The Workplace of No Return
Paperback
Series: The Screw Turns, Book 3
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Humphrey Archer
Published: Mar 16 2026
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When fate grants your wish, the price is always higher than you think...
In The Screw Turns - Volume 3, Humphrey Archer returns with another uncompromising collection of dark, sharply realistic tragedies-tales where ordinary choices, petty grudges, everyday shortcuts, and whispered superstitions spiral into catastrophes both shocking and disturbingly plausible.
Drawing on real OSHA incident reports, medical mishaps, public-health failures, and workplace hazards, Archer crafts stories that feel frighteningly possible. There are no ghosts here-just human nature, bad judgment, and the merciless physics of the world we live in.
Inside these pages, you'll meet:
- A politician whose shortcuts infect more than just policy.
- A hospital worker whose hygiene hack turns fatal.
- A lab thief undone by his own greed.
- A conspiracy-minded worker who goes looking for treasure-and finds The Beast.
- A fitness fanatic who trusts the wrong natural foods.
- A nurse who sees too much, and restores balance in her own way.
- A demolition crew who uncovers a secret entombed for decades.
- And dozens more unforgettable characters, each racing toward the moment the screw finally turns.
Wickedly clever, relentlessly grounded, and laced with mordant humor, these stories sit somewhere between Final Destination, The Monkey's Paw, and the grimmest medical case reports you've ever heard whispered at a hospital coffee station. Each tale promises the same thing: a small wish, a sharp turn, and a devastatingly satisfying end.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Dark, realistic fiction
- Medical and industrial thrillers
- Cautionary tales rooted in real-world dangers
- Short, intense, one-more-story-before-bed reads
If you crave tragedies that creep under your skin-not with monsters, but with the unmistakable truth of how life can go wrong-open this volume and step into Archer's world.
One wish. One twist. One last chance to escape a fate already in motion.
Turn the page... if you dare.
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