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27 May 2023 2 minute read 10 comments Allen Taylor
In 2014, I hit upon an idea that I thought was two rungs short of genius (it's the story of my life, falling short of genius). In all seriousness, I thought I'd put out a call for submissions for writers in the speculative fiction genre to send me st...
27 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… The Great Lower Sea. In prose poetical and spare, the Innulians have brooded upon its obsidian-salt gleam, long since before men and women first strode upright, and bartered their souls away to the gods. Its aspect is treac...
19 May 2023 3 minute read 6 comments Great White Snark
Stack Exchange: A network of Q&A sites for miserable fucks whom take rules too seriously and are devoid of a sense of humour and/or fun, where questions that attempt to inject some of it get not just closed, but deleted. I found that out, to my annoy...
18 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
The chamber is blandly furnished. A grey tenement tepidly illumined by a few grey candles, and tin lantern-forks. Like silence, made skin and temporality, she drifts and snakes down the low lintel and onto a rough-planked floor blotted by the sour d...
17 May 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Jay Lonnquist
For a thousand years, the Opal Quarter has spread and sprawled like a hungry, fungal organ from out the ventricle of the great City’s heart. There are walls within walls, within tangles of odd architecture. Common masonry in the embrasure of uncanny...
27 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments VelvetRaindrops
The woman sipped from her cup as she surveyed her garden. She had to admit, it really was beautiful and she took a certain amount of pride in making sure it stayed that way. The roses were by far her favorite though the hedges were lovely as well. Th...
15 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments gianne
Zaelin was already in her bed when she woke up. She continued to stare aimlessly at the ceiling. After a few minutes, she began to examine her body, and she couldn't help but smile bitterly, wondering if the life-or-death situation she experienced wa...
15 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments gianne
[Hello, human.] "Where is this? Am I dead?" she immediately searched for the strange voice she heard. [You're in my domain, and no, you're not dead yet. They are about to capture you but I'm here to give you a chance to flee. I noticed that you have...
24 Dec 2022 1 minute read 2 comments stbrians
Drip, drip, dripSomething dropped from nowhereIts sound fell with the heartbeatI felt weakI clutched firmly to the skeptreInvoluntarilyMy hand flew to my foreheadI touched something wetIt smelt bloodThe smell was overbearingly strong.I began drifting...
18 Nov 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78
As I promised, this month I will do another writing challenge, this time the focus will be on storytelling, and I will try to immortalize a fragment of life, a short story about something that made me wonder, being that an idea or a peek...
