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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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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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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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All Kinds of Things Kill by Robert R. Best

“All Kinds of Things Kill” is a horror anthology that contains 9 stories.  The stories are gruesome, frightening, perverse, imaginative, and sick; in other words, they have all the elements that go into making a horror anthology a good one.  So turn the lights off, grab a blanket, and get ready to enjoy some chilling tales. . . .

A collection of stories.
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In This Twilight by Al Bruno III

a tale of lost gods and fragile transformations

A world where both dreams and monsters lurk in the shadows, where love and forgotten rituals fight for control of the human heart, and where the madness of eternity can be glimpsed in a single segmented eye. . . .

A collection of stories.
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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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Fictdoodles by David Wilson-Burns

A blog for very short fiction, the odd poem and the occasional illustration

I write a flash fiction piece every week for #fridayflash.  Some humorous, some dramatic, some speculative.  I also include poems and original illustrations. . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated sporadically.
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Rebirth in Darkness by Shroudphoenix

Things that crawl in the shadows, spirits of unsettled dead, arcane mysteries in our current age . . . Fiction, Fantasy, Imagination.  Each person can be reborn at least once in his own mind.  Each one of us can close his eyes and picture himself as something different, finding in the myths the courage to maintain his stability in the pressing life that encircles . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated weekly.
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DARK ICON ORIGINAL FICTION

A Mixture of Things

Editor: Jim Zoetewey
September 13, 2008

The Dark Icon Original Fiction web site contains a wide variety of stories set in different and interesting worlds. I only spent a significant amount of time with two.

I read all (so far) of the on-going web serial "Court of the Abominatrix" and a couple stories from the "Magekiller" series [more . . .]

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