{"product_id":"one-short-a-tale-from-hmp-stillwater-paperback","title":"ONE SHORT A Tale From HMP Stillwater - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDarren Stafford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne night. One wing. One name that refuses to stay forgotten.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNight shifts at HMP Stillwater have their own rhythm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocked doors. Observation checks. Radio calls. The distant clatter of gates. Footsteps travelling along landings when nobody should be there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOfficer Darya Jones knows those sounds. She has spent enough nights inside prisons to know that old buildings make noises, tired minds play tricks, and there is usually a perfectly ordinary explanation for whatever seems strange at three in the morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut tonight, G Wing is different.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA prisoner insists she has seen another officer walking the landing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCTV shows movement where nobody is standing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFootsteps sound beneath a floor that should lead nowhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd when Darya completes the roll check, the numbers refuse to agree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThey are one short.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as an irritating discrepancy slowly draws Darya towards a part of Stillwater that has been closed for years-and towards the remains of a night the prison would rather leave buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was a fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was an evacuation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd somewhere among the damaged reports, forgotten corridors and half-remembered voices is the name of a woman called Karolina Voss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the night deepens, the prison begins to change around Darya. Past and present bleed together. Old radio transmissions return through the static. Locked gates remember being opened. Smoke appears where there is no fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Darya begins to understand that Stillwater is not trying to frighten her away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is trying to make her remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause prisons remember things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people who passed through them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people who worked inside them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd sometimes, the people who never truly left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eONE SHORT\u003c\/strong\u003e is the first supernatural tale from \u003cstrong\u003eHMP Stillwater\u003c\/strong\u003e-a haunting prison ghost story about memory, guilt, forgotten lives and the strange sounds that become much harder to dismiss when you are the only officer on the wing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome footsteps belong to prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome belong to staff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd some have been walking the landings for years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50988778717323,"sku":"9781919207469","price":29.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/7Mh5fwCWe9781919207469.webp?v=1793335971","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/one-short-a-tale-from-hmp-stillwater-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}