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Addergoole is a contemporary fantasy story with erotic and dark-fantasy elements. Set in a world which is, on the surface, much like our own, Addergoole follows three students as they enter a strange, new school and discover just how much they don’t know about themselves, their parents, or their world. . . .
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Tales of MU is an open-ended serial detailing the college life of one Mackenzie Blaise, a university student in a world where our fantasy is reality and our science is fantasy. Moving from her sheltered existence as an outcast and self-professed geek into the wild, wide world of Magisterius University, Mackenzie narrates her own story for us in a style . . .
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The Legion of Nothing is the story of Nick Klein and what happens when he takes on the identity (and powered armor) of “The Rocket.” Originally his grandfather’s superhero identity, the powered armor comes with a lot of baggage. Ranging from his grandfather’s service in World War II to connections with other heroes (and villains), the past has a . . .
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High school is miserable for Taylor. Despite the fact that her superpower is a little less conventional than super strength or shooting laser beams from her hands, she’s been holding on to a dream of becoming a superhero. As she takes the plunge, however, things don’t go as planned. Taylor finds herself immersed in a world of black and . . .
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Zephyr is a well-read ongoing prose webcomic detailing the adventures of a well-meaning but often hapless superhero in a dystopian new America. Zephyr is influenced by postliterary writing and Sturgeon’s law. It’s 2009 on the eastern seaboard of the United States. The place is Atlantic City: a sweeping longitudinal metropolis designed by Frank Lloyd Wright following widespread devastation in 1984. . . .
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Peter Normal leaves California and moves into his grandfather’s house with his mother and sister. Upon arriving he discovers that his grandfather’s house looks like something out of a horror movie, that his grandfather forbids him to go into the garden, and that the neighbor boy is a bit off the wall. He also discovers that the undead thing . . .
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Queen of Seven is a novel about the past, the present, and the future. A story about family. A story about growing up, and growing old. A story of how you can never escape your ghosts or hide your secrets forever. It’s the story of Elly, a girl blessed –– and cursed –– with more power than anyone should ever . . .
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This is a story of a changed world, of the works of man in conflict with the works of nature. Of humans who have become more than human, and humans that have become less. It is the story of Tom, an Arizona native who left as a child after an earthquake severed California from the mainland, and created an ocean . . .
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The Bradbury Institute is a small private organization dedicated to the study of magic and the occult. Its members are scholars, magicians, psychics, plus a few individuals of . . . unique origin. In addition to academic research members are often involved in the search for rare magical artifacts, as well as a larger secret mission. . . .
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Life after death for the lost. The dead arrive in Gehenna as human beings, but if you stick around too long, as in don’t repent and get redeemed or simply die the second and final death, then you slowly turn into a demon—a vampire—and then you really do belong in hell. Michael Thane was just shy of scoring a millennia . . .
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‘Indigo’ is an ongoing gothic fiction story set in Melbourne, Australia. Indigo investigates supernatural occurrences. But her work takes a frightening turn when a strange being switches its interest from indigo’s client to Indigo herself. Stalked by her ‘follower’ she must delve back into her own past to find the key to her freedom. Many of the ghost . . .
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Set in a fictionalized version of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Ho Springs is the story of a native daughter who returns home after 20 years in Paris to find her family in a shambles, their historic restaurant shuttered, the town itself in chaos. Ho Springs is told from several characters’ viewpoints, including a Parisian teenager and a meth ho, an Evangelical . . .
“The New Bedlam Project” is a web zine based around the town of New Bedlam and its inhabitants. Each short story or poem tells a tale of this strange, haunted, and possibly cursed small town. The stories vary in length between one screenful of text and several pages. If you like horror or dark, urban fairy tales, you’ll probably find [more . . .]
So far I’ve read to part 36, and I’m quite pleased. Admittedly, the start was a bit rocky, and I almost put it down because of that, but I’m very glad I didn’t! After the first few installments, everything just gels and the story gains some focus and clarity. It becomes an intricate tale that for the most part seamlessly [more . . .]