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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...

"The Doom Statues" - Chapter 16

14 Apr 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

One of the artists, Rafael, spends three weeks, before the official opening, cataloging every piece of wood in the main building, most of it located up on the third floor. And even then is not quite finished. Others do the same with every drop...

A brief tale of monkeys and goats, urging you to invest in the stocks of reputable companies

13 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments subscriber

Note, that this story isn’t quite the same as the monkey story you may have got in one of those chain-forwarded emails. There was this village where one day a man appeared and said that he wanted to buy monkeys. He said that he would pay $10 per mo...

New Audiobook: Garden of Eden Anthology

12 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor

Hello speculative fiction fans! I said I'd let you know when I roll out new audiobooks. I'm happy to announce Garden of Eden Anthology is now available on audio and, for a limited time, is only $2.99. This offer is only good through April. Therefore,...

"Tales" the podcast - chapter L1

10 Apr 2024 1 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey

Well, the book is finally out, and like a proud papa, I couldn’t be happier! This is the first time I ever tried an actual semi-legit, planned out release strategy, i.e. scheduling it 3 months in advance and promoting the thing for a change. I’m not...

"The Doom Statues" - chapter 15

29 Mar 2024 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Jeremy doesn’t even think to tell Ben and Lois about his arrival, until he has joined them at Otherwise. Of course, he may have correctly deduced that Emily would, right away. But Ben supposes that his son has always had a project-oriented mind, and...