The Side Eye

An old woman rocks on a derelict porch, waiting to be seen - because being seen is the only thing keeping her from disappearing entirely. A husband feels something watching from the dark, certain it's nothing, certain he's wrong. A house full of covered mirrors hides a family secret that reaches back through the glass. Across this collection, Caselberg returns again and again to the same quiet dread: the weight of being watched, and the greater terror of not being seen at all. The Side Eye gathers thirty-two previously scattered stories and poems - published across two decades in venues from Interzone to The Literary Hatchet - into one volume for the first time. Ghosts, ordinary grief, quiet transformations, and the corner-of-the-eye things that don't stay in the corner. Stories that watch you back.