overall 6 votes: 
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Torn World offers a unique shared world platform with flavors of science fiction, high fantasy, slipstream, steampunk and alternate realities. Two widely disparate cultures are poised to meet – a close-knit, peaceful, unicorn-herding people, and a sprawling, expansionist, pre-industrial Empire that uses time technology in a near-magic fashion. Created by Ellen Million, multiple authors and artists have used the . . .
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Adam’s subject matter tends towards the surreal or at least the very least weird. His writing has been described in the press as a ‘Chandler-esque hard-boiled cocktail, stirred with equal parts humour, mystery, gut-wrenching realism, and trademark minimalism’, ‘weird, wonderful, twisted and witty’ and even ‘almost Fawlty Towers’ which is, unsurprisingly, one of his favourites. His first book, a collection . . .
Writing a good short story is hard.
You’ve got to suggest enough about a character and their situation to get people to care, but if you want it to remain a short story you can’t tell too much.
Flash fiction is harder.
Torn World is a science fantasy shared world, blending motifs from science fiction and fantasy genres. Out of the Ancient civilization with its advanced temporal technology came the Upheaval, which shattered the world into many shards in which time flowed at different speeds. The modern world is slowly healing and rejoining its shards. Torn World provides a space for writers [more . . .]