Nikita Costiuc writes suspense with dark humor, think Veep meets Knives Out.

His fiction has placed first in the Humor category of TulipTree’s 2025 short story contest and sixth in Kinsman Quarterly’s Voices of Mixed Heritage contest. His stories are forthcoming in Crimeucopia and Kings River Life Magazine.

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