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9 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.10
Twenty-six bells, since the pair had boarded Meshmin’s flagship undergalley. Umin stood, rubbing fingers into weary, purpled eye-sockets and pressing tired temples. He is densely shrouded against the tacky salt-dew and chill, in a sombre sea-robe. ...
6 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.03
The Shir is a beast of burden. In their youth they are diminutive, shapeless fleshy blossom-forms, drifting and filtering the lightless and grim under-flows of the Great Lower Sea. It is in this still unformed, latter quarter of their youth that they...
5 Jun 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Krisz Rokk $0.06
His skin could absorb huge amounts of radiation which enabled him to walk for hours in the midst of the day when the sun seamed to melt all the surroundings. Enik’s vibrant and crystal clear blue eyes were shimmering while he walked across the boulev...
3 Jun 2023 1 minute read 6 comments Allen Taylor $0.32
After last week's announcement that I've intended to revive the Biblical Legends Anthology Series, it seems the series had a resurgence of interest on Amazon. That's great news. I'm thankful for the interest. If you're one of those who bought the boo...
29 May 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor $0.52
Recently, I announced the re-launch of a multi-author speculative fiction anthology book series I edited and published nine years ago. I decided to re-launch the books for several reasons, but one question I’ve been asked since making this decision i...
28 May 2023 10 minute read 1 comment NukeAbe $0.11
This is a real story. Or at least as real as any story really is. Welcome to the Post-Truth World. The Age of Spin. The fine line between fiction and fact is getting finer. Please don’t believe anything on the internet. Always D.Y.O.R. This is just a...
27 May 2023 2 minute read 10 comments Allen Taylor $0.52
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 $0.13
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...
26 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.04
The first days after Dora’s release from her prison we didn’t leave, we celebrated. She was overflowing in joy and gratitude for her newfound powers. It wasn’t quite like being released, it was much more. She’d been confined her whole conscious li...
26 May 2023 11 minute read 0 comments Jeanne_writes $0.03
Lev and Alexei stood outside Boris’s dilapidated mansion for the second time in one night. “Why the hell are we back here?” Lev asked. Anxiety began to lumber to its feet as he remembered what happened inside just hours ago. Alexei ran a hand through...
