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A Wolf

25 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Used2BTinTin

I was coming out of the Baptist Church me and my parents clean every night when we saw a dog. It was to my left, on the edge of the parking lot where the forest started. My mother saw it first. “That’s a large dog,” she said. She didn’t think much of...

Where the Forest Floor Found Him

18 Feb 2022 3 minute read 0 comments NickytheClone

       If he needed firewood, he went and got it. It was his custom for over ten years. He lived quietly by himself on a few acres in Macdoel. He housed a few mares, and if the neighbors' stock came to his land, fuck it, he wasn't eating the yard.  ...

Chapter 4 - The Council

17 Feb 2022 17 minute read 0 comments Dis0ri3nted

  Mykel walked along a well paved road heading into town. This section he was walking through was all farmland for growing grains and vegetables and a few livestock farms, so there wasn’t much for scenery on either side of him. But straight ahead of...

The Southern Retreat

17 Feb 2022 1 minute read 2 comments NickytheClone

       When he finally stood face to face with Shasta, he fell upon his knees. He wept, as if the tears would relieve the wrinkles that had come to him under the summer sun of the west. He could relinquish his claim in the north. He could relinquish...

Underneath the Cottonwood

16 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments NickytheClone

           When his cartridges ran out, he holstered the revolver. He didn't have time to react when he burned his hip in the process. He was saddled and full-stride north, the gelding beneath him responding as if he knew the man's intentions before...

The Artificial Intelligence Interpretation of a section of my short story - Weakest Link

15 Feb 2022 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred

The artwork accompanying this blog post was created from an excerpt of my short story "Weakest Link". Here's that section: "Betrayal. That was the slab of marble he had to work with. He chipped away at the marble, stealing the organization's time & r...

Tales from the graveyard shift

5 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Tšuhna

>A man yawns as he walks up to the CNC mill and checks the terminal to see what caused the machine to stop milling and start beeping instead."Of course something goes wrong just as my last shift for some time is about to end, what broke this time?" h...

The Winter {Part 2} {Horror}

1 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments CardinylCo.

{Part 1}     "Rejoice"      My head felt as though it were expanding at the mere utterance of that word. "Nevermore will hardship fall upon you," said the white-clad woman. Then with a single motion of her hand, the door had fixed itself and my fire...

The Winter {Part 1} {Horror}

27 Jan 2022 2 minute read 0 comments CardinylCo.

    As the endless blizzard ravaged the woods outside the cabin I had made my refuge in, I struggled to set the fireplace aflame. I was now regretting my hike through this side of the mountain. The one upside to my situation was that I could rest ass...

A short story - Where is she? Part 2

22 Jan 2022 7 minute read 0 comments forstersphilosophy

lost, split into two, an unconscious wanderer guided by dark reflection. A story told a million times, not one in a million but one of a million.But a longing, an ache, a quantum shock guided by protons and neutrons incorrectly charged, forcing notic...