Fiction

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Fragment 96

24 Jan 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

With a disquieting mingle of emotions both caliginous and bright.  Pyna watched the figure leisurely pace - producing a deliberate, echoing ironshod cacophony with each footfall - from out beyond the concealing wall of the Solarium, then slowly aroun...

Three Invisible Paintings

24 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"A moving painting, but with sound.That idea stuck in my head."David Lynch   Three invisible paintings, but with sound, composed in honor of the life and work of David Lynch.  Thank you for many decades of mystery and inspiration.  You will be missed...

"Well-Behaved Monsters" - get your presale discount!

23 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Hello again! As you probably know by now, my latest work, Well-Behaved Monsters, is coming out April 9. But I’m rewarding the brave and loyal among you with a special Kindle preorder price of 99 cents. Just click the snazzy image above or t...

I was sleeping

20 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

A pig in Kabul stuck between two logssquealed all night(my night, his day)I was sleeping and his fears woke mehe screamed far awayhe asked for help from another continentI opened my eyes in the middle of the night(the moon above me, the sun above him...

Falthal Wept

20 Jan 2025 1 minute read 2 comments CryptozNewb

Falthal wept. The blood of his beloved stained him. She had insisted. They both knew there was no choice. But that knowledge didn't lessen the pain. The body he carried was just a husk now. Her soul forever bound in the seal that closed the rip in th...

BURN IT DOWN - Prometheus stole fire from the Gods. Mortals unleash it

20 Jan 2025 10 minute read 0 comments Wopney

Prometheus stole fire from the Gods. Mortals unleash it LONDON 1780 The protestors start by attacking the carriages of those arriving at Parliament. Criminals they held responsible for passing the Act. Yet, the anti-catholic sentiment soon morphs i...

A Scary Story For Goodnight - The Silent Night of Frost and Phantoms

19 Jan 2025 3 minute read 0 comments CryptoGemGR

Snowflakes twirled in the dim light of the streetlamps, each one a silent promise of a frozen dawn. In the small, secluded village nestled in the heart of the mountains, winter had always been a time of beauty and isolation. But this night, the snowf...

Fragment 95

19 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

Two nights passed, then three. Pyna had learned that, as she slumbered deep in undesired convalescence, the Burning Houses and their martinets had laid open the Opal Quarter’s Hall of Stews. That it had been churned into an allagrugous ruin. The plea...

"Well-Behaved Monsters" - preview + paperback preorder!

16 Jan 2025 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Okay my friends and neighbors, the print edition of my next book, Well-Behaved Monsters, is now available for preorder! The rest of the world can only get their copy beginning April 9. But as an exclusive to my loyal readers of this newsletter, th...

My new Profession | Started on The Beach

16 Jan 2025 1 minute read 12 comments Melina Mehr

It all started with a simple walk along the beach. I had just lost my job and found myself with an unsettling amount of free time. Losing a job is funny in a not-so-funny way. At first, it hits you with this wave of panic—your mind running a hundred...