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Zomtropolis: A Record of Life in a Dead City by A.P. Fuchs

Zombies, a futuristic city, and that little thing called love.

Marty hated his life, especially since breaking up with the girl he loved with his whole heart, Selena.  That was before the Zombie Apocalypse hit.  Now life sucks even more because not only does he have a broken heart, but the undead have nearly overrun the city. Selena died, lost to the zombies.  His only means of communication with . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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Death, Inc. by Edward Morris

Book Zero of There Was a Crooked Man

Welcome to the world of master fabulist Edward Morris, where History has been pulled down a Hieronymus Bosch rabbit-hole and everything makes far too much sense.  In Morris’s alternate history tour de force, on an East Coast two centuries after Armageddon, a rogue soldier throws himself back in Time to wreak havoc upon History and feed on the blood in . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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Dark Icon Original Fiction by Dark Icon

All of us, even the world itself, began in darkness.

Original works of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.  Ten years of novels, short stories, and serial fiction.  All free. . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated thrice weekly.
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The Guide to Moral Living in Examples by Greg X. Graves

The Guide to Moral Living in Examples is an ever-growing collection of speculative fiction pieces designed to illustrate solutions to common moral dilemmas, such as what to do if the occupants of your cemetery form a tenants’ union or if a demon takes up residence on your couch. . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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The New Bedlam Project by Jodi Lee (editor)

Something is wrong in New Bedlam...

The New Bedlam Project follows the adventures of numerous and sundry characters found in the past, present and future of one messed up little town.  Originally started as a companion piece to the Courting Morpheus anthology, the webzine has taken on a life of its own. We publish several short stories and a selection of poetry in each quarterly . . .

An online magazine of fiction, updated infrequently.
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flesh phantoms by Alan P. Scott

cynical biped

The stories here are short (some very short) and are mostly sf – that is, speculative fiction: fantasies, myths, science fiction, slipstream . . . all the flavors of fabulation except, I hope, for the mundane.  Many were written with the audience of the Usenet newsgroup talk.bizarre in mind, back when text was the thing. —APS . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated sporadically.
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Behind the Night Sky by Robert Dunn

Max never had the chance to say goodbye, he did have the chance to scream. Violently taken from his wife and his world Max slips into a nightmare of fear, agony and experimentation at the hands of creatures stalking the night skies. Twenty years later four friends have gathered at an isolated Ozarks ranch to celebrate an upcoming birth . . .

A serialized novel, updating Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Pulp Engine by Lamar Henderson

Pulp Engine is an online magazine dedicated to fun, character and plot-driven fiction.  We don’t seek to emulate the classic pulp magazines of the ’20s and ’30s, but rather create new stories that attempt the capture the spirit of fun and adventure those stories possessed, focusing on the modern world. . . .

An online magazine of fiction, updated weekly.
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Knightfall by Ben Essex

Rapture is coming.

All over the world, Knights are appearing.  They have swords.  They ride horses.  They wear shining armour.  They’re causing trouble. Nobody knows where they came from or why they’re here—even the Knights themselves are pretty vague on the matter.  However, they’re not about to let that get in the way of their crusading.  They have a Law to uphold. . . .

An ongoing scripted series, with new episodes monthly.
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Keromaru – Short Fiction by Alex Scott

Stories with a nice dose of the unusual:  A demon who rebels against Lucifer; a girl whose family adopts a robot; childhood friends who reunite on board a space elevator.  Science fiction and fantasy, with occasional dips-of-the-toe into other genres.  The main blog also includes drawings and comments on writing. . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated sporadically.
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Project: Freeflow by Thomas Knapp and Mary Ebert

On August 15, 2110 at 0927 ZULU, the asteroid body Volstock 22-AAE collided with the Earth fifty-one kilometers north of the Los Angeles metropolis in what was then the province of the same name. The asteroid wasn’t particularly large, only a little over one hundred and twenty meters at its widest, and even though the asteroid in and of . . .

A complete pdf novel.
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The Best Short Stories of Cliff Burns (1985-2009) by Cliff Burns

A selection of the best short fiction by Canadian cult writer, Cliff Burns

I have well over 100 published short stories to my credit and you can also toss in appearances in fifteen major anthologies around the world (including a number of “Best Of . . . ” volumes).  I love the short story format and coming back to it this summer after spending the four years previous working on my “Ilium” novel cycle was exciting and . . .

A collection of stories.
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KNIGHTFALL

Mystery and Adventure

Editor: Miladysa
January 3, 2009

This is only the second piece of script presented fiction that I have read and I admit to knowing very little – if anything at all – about the technicalities of their execution outside my experience as a reader. 

What appeals to me about this style of fiction is that it [more . . .]

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THE NEW BEDLAM PROJECT

A trip through a dark town with multiple drivers…

Member: zoewhitten
June 11, 2009

The New Bedlam Project is a web zine with multiple authors writing around the same fictional location of New Bedlam. Varying between shorter flash fiction and poetry and longer short stories, every person is free to develop a dark story about the history of this cursed town. Jodi Lee’s entry in the issue, Through New Bedlam, helps to explain more [more . . .]

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