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Stories about people at the moment
everything shifts.
Fiction that lingers in the spaces between action and consequence.
Mike Cohen’s fiction focuses on the inner lives of people navigating moments of uncertainty, recognition, and change. His novels and short stories are grounded in character, attentive to detail, and shaped by the belief that even small decisions can carry weight.
Whether you’re here for a novel or a brief story, you’re invited to wander.
Featured Works
After a career-ending misstep in Washington, a conflicted young lawyer returns to the town he once escaped. Assigned a case that implicates people closest to him, he must decide how far he’s willing to go for the truth—and what it will cost him if he does. Rivertown Heroes is a story of moral pressure, belonging, and the uneasy line between personal loyalty and justice.
The Three of Us is a collection of short stories about relationships—romantic, familial, and unexpected—and the subtle forces that shape them. Across these pages, ordinary moments reveal quiet tensions, unspoken loyalties, and the ways people misunderstand one another even as they try to connect. These are stories that unfold gently, then linger, asking what it really means to share a life with someone else.
Mike Cohen
Mike Cohen writes novels and short stories about people navigating moments of uncertainty, recognition, and change. His fiction pays close attention to the choices people make—and the ones they avoid.
For New Readers
Every story has a first encounter.
The Start Here page introduces a few of the people you’ll meet in Mike Cohen’s fiction and offers an easy way into the novels and short stories they inhabit.
Recent Author Musings
How to Take: A Guitar Lesson
Bill (Mr. Warshal, Faz?) looked absolutely lost among the guitar inventory. He kept looking for other musical options randomly raising them in questions; Why not a flute? What about a saxophone or a... Read More
Fiction Writing: Consumed by a Thought
A consuming thought in your head: that’s where writing a book begins. Writing a book involves a compulsion, a driving need to demonstrate what happens when a person or persons are seized with... Read More