The Weight of Small Mistakes

When fate turns its screw... someone always pays the price.

From the author of The Screw Turns series, comes the darkest, sharpest, and most deliciously unsettling collection yet.
Final Destination collides with The Monkey's Paw in twenty-three new tales of ordinary people making terrible choices-and meeting extraordinary consequences.

Welcome to The Screw Turns, Vol. 4-a world where:

• A well-meaning doctor with cold hands discovers that some patients have dangerously powerful reflexes.
• A proud foodie confuses wild herbs and poisonous lookalikes-with unforgettable results.
• A bookish administrator finds a shortcut through bureaucracy that literally blows up in his face.
• A dog with impeccable instincts outperforms human judgment again... and again.
• A hospital's "resilience program" triggers an outcome that no consultant could have predicted.
• A troll picks the wrong therapist to harass-and meets a very proactive client.

Each story is meticulously grounded in real medical accidents, OSHA cases, and true-world technical details-but unfolds with Roald Dahl's mischievous bite and Poe's creeping inevitability. There's no gore for gore's sake, no cheap shocks, and no supernatural cop-outs. Just the stark, cold, riveting mechanics of how people bring about their own undoing.

Darkly funny. Clinically precise. Morbidly satisfying.
If you love intelligent short fiction where every choice tightens the noose-and every ending lands like a punch-this collection will become your new obsession.

Twist by twist, the screw turns.
And someone, somewhere, is about to meet their fate.