The world ends not with a bang,
but with a stumble.
Just Out!
Hunting season is over. The human harvest has begun.
In the ruins of America, the deadliest monster could be the person you love.
For a decade, the world feared the fast-spreading and incurable "Zombie Deer" prion disease. Now the pestilenced has mutated and spilled over to humans. Called Acquired Prion Sociopathy Syndrome (APSS), the disease changes personalities and some victims become psychopaths.
A Season of Turbulence, was accepted for the 30th anniversary anthology of best writing in Eclectica Magazine, coming out in 2026.
Editorial acceptance for A Season of Turbulence
Boroff's rhythmic language echoes the hard-boiled spirit of Chandler or Hammett. Overall, it's a strong story with brilliant dialogue, and an intimate knowledge of the attitudes and environs of Alaska. I highly recommend publication.
Review of A Season of Turbulence
Author Linda Boroff expertly braids well-developed plot, vivid setting, and exceptional lyricism by using utterly raw prose to echo the raw landscape.”— Emily Wick writing in Prick of the Spindle
The Dressmaker's Daughter
Beautiful and spirited Daniela dreams of becoming a doctor while growing up in Yedinitz, Romania in 1940, but as a Jew, she is barred from higher education. Her mother, who is the dressmaker to a local countess, hires her a tutor, the rebellious and precocious Mihail. The two soon begin a passionate romance, unable to resist the powerful love and attraction they share.
Award-Winning Author
Linda Boroff
Linda Boroff graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in English. Her humorous short stories, satires and feature articles have appeared in a broad span of noted publications, including McSweeney’s, The Guardian. Gawker, Hollywood Dementia, Epoch, Cimarron Review, Hobart, Crack the Spine, The Pedestal Magazine, The Writing Disorder, The Piltdown Review, 5:21 Magazine, Thoughtful Dog, Drunk Monkeys, Blunderbuss Magazine, JONAH Magazine, Eclectica, The Boiler, Fictive Dream, and Lifelines, the literary journal of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Able Muse Magazine and won first prize in The Writers Place fiction competition, as well as placing in the Top Ten or semifinals of numerous other contests including American Gem, the Chesterfields, and the Los Angeles International Screenplay Competition. She has written one one produced feature film and has two screenplays currently in development.
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The Remnant
Young newlywed Dar Beaumont is trapped in a box of her own making that keeps growing tighter, smaller and scarier. On the surface, her life in the mid-1970s is blossoming. She adores her handsome husband Roc, who has just won his dream job of assistant district attorney in San Marcos, a town that resembles Santa Cruz on the beautiful California central coast.
Author Linda Boroff expertly braids well-developed plot, vivid setting, and exceptional lyricism by using utterly raw prose to echo the raw landscape.
Murder in Fashion, written by Linda Boroff and directed by Ben Waller, is a straightforward, well-paced, resourcefully made account of handsome but crazed Andrew Cunanan’s 1997 serial killing spree that culminated with his fatal shooting of Gianni Versace in Miami Beach.
— Review in L.A. Times
…Terrific writing, very strong; quietly powerful story, at once direct and complex; beautifully achieved and thoroughly satisfying.