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"The Doom Statues" - Chapter 20

17 May 2024 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  “Have you invited your parents out here?” Emily asks Kay, as they crunch their way through this burnt orange colored carpet of needles, “like, for one of these upcoming tours, maybe?” Harry hasn’t explicitly stated who is and isn’t permitted...

"The Doom Statues" - Chapter 19

12 May 2024 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Distracted by this pond, Jeremy and company have gotten no further than skirting it. They approached from the left side, nearest the woods, but then rounded the top and have come back around down the opposite side. He wouldn’t consider hims...

"The Doom Statues" - Chapter 18

10 May 2024 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Sunday morning brings with it more unrelenting gloom, which is somewhat unusual for this state, this time of the year. They’re all still waiting for an Indian Summer that hasn’t yet materialized. Prompted by Emily’s continued sleepless hyst...

Cosmic Chess (Fiction)

9 May 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

“Thank you for volunteering to take part in this linear game. You are the Elite, our absolute best, and you’ve trained for what will unfold for billions of years. Some of you are Starseeds playing your very first live game under these harsh condition...

Write the best Bitcoin short story, win $1000 in BTC!

8 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Schlixxxxxx

Would you like to see a story you've written in a book? Would you like to earn $1000 in BTC for writing 3000 words of financial dystopian horror? Well, now you can. I'm one of the editors and competition judges for Konsensus Network's second-ever sho...

Episode 6 - Unraveling Secrets

5 May 2024 2 minute read 0 comments elmz2k4

Episode 6: Unraveling Secrets In the rain-soaked streets of the megacity, the fateful encounter between Bel, the enigmatic cyborg, and Bernie had reached a turning point. A moment of hesitation, prompted by a whispered thought from Bernie, left the...

"The Doom Statues" - Chapter 17

5 May 2024 7 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey

Sorting out who will sleep where is a matter decided with surprisingly little animosity. Though the artists mostly prefer solitude to begin with, this notion of separate living quarters, with or without toilets — the newly constructed cabin...

Bipedal Specimen #1

20 Apr 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Tšuhna

(this is a story I posted on r/HFY, "HFY" being short for "Humanity F*** Yeah!", enjoy) Journal entry #1, Cycle 0Bipedal Specimen #1, hereto known as "The Specimen", has regained consciousness, after briefly exhibiting confusion and alarm over its un...

The 100 Page Treatment: When Do You Give Up On A Bad Book?

20 Apr 2024 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Bad To Not So Great Many years ago, at some point in the early 2000s, a friend of mine was remarking that he never knew when to give up on a book. As it just so happened, maybe six months at most before this, I had coincidentally settled on a...

The Candor Frequency (Fiction)

18 Apr 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

“Which way now, Captain?” “Take the left corridor and walk down to the middle until you see a platinum door on your right. Once you open the door, you’ll go down a steep staircase leading to a large crystalline chamber with access to six rooms. Open...