How to Make a Killing Jar

Utilizing an arsenal of tools amassed from years of study and teaching, Ace Baker unleashes a powerful collection of 12+1 tales.

Always compelling, sometimes irreverent, often shocking; revealing layers and levels not often achieved through short stories.

How to Make a Killing Jar will linger long after the last page is read, proving the world of fiction can unveil some harsh, hard, and sometimes humorous truths about the human condition.

Praise for Ace Baker's Writing

"The Killing Jar"

"A wonderful story of love, heartbreak, and redemption, all sliding past each other in overlapping layers of depth and meaning." -Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series

"This story is a tour de force that left me breathless and awed by the indelible images it thrust into my awareness. It's a searing piece of writing--terse, taut, and terrific in its brilliant intensity, with the poetic commentaries falling like sparks from a brilliant rocket. A stand-out winner by anyone's standards." -Jack Whyte, author of The Camulod Chronicles

"Plow Breaks Soil"

"Big Red Schoolhouse (the poem included in "Plow Breaks Soil") keeps us up to our elbows in the muck of the moment...the poem is dynamic and dramatic in its details, as elegiac as it is realistic and beautifully sequenced though stanza and line...a choreographed chaos of feelings and action, dominated by a double dimension of obligation..." -George McWhirter, Vancouver's first Poet Laureate

"Graphic and painful, but so wonderful to read. Really interesting and compelling story." -Geraldine MacDonald, Blank Spaces fiction contest judge

"Menos Coca, Más Cacao"

"Now that I know that Ace is also a poet, it makes sense because I noticed the rhythm and the flow and the pacing." -Rachel Laverdiere, editor Barren Magazine



TW: violence, suicide, abuse, sexual assault