Stories that go where the light doesn't reach.

Book cover for Death Ledger by J.A. Hartig. A ghostly woman's face appears reflected in a laptop screen displaying a handwritten document, against a dark background.

A Short Story By J. A. Hartig

J. A. HARTIG

J.A. Hartig is the darker half of Julie Hartig — the voice that goes further into shadow, that doesn’t soften the landing.

Some threads run through all the work: systems that fail or destroy the people they’re meant to protect, and moral reckoning in the absence of good options. But under this name, those preoccupations become stranger, more violent, more supernatural — less interested in resolution and more interested in what happens when women stop asking permission.

The Death Ledger was the first story that could only have been written as J.A. Hartig. It won’t be the last.

For more information about the author, visit the about page on the sister site.

J.A. Hartig shares a home with Julie Hartig

For more about the author visist the about page.

For upmarket book club fiction — including the novel Hope and Madness — visit the Julie Hartig page.