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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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Hyperlink Your Heart by randomhuman

Until there's nothing left

Out of loneliness, or boredom, maybe, you assign a URL to your heart and share it on the forums and social networks you frequent.  The hits trickle in at first, the unusually curious trampling through, poking and prodding, unsure of what they’re seeing.  But then the links spread.  Everybody wants to see your heart, to have a role in pulling . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated weekly.
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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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Nomesque Fiction by Naomi Kramer

Because life wasn't odd enough

A collection of (mostly) serial short stories, in several genres.  Mostly light-hearted, primarily humorous, with a touch of the paranormal and fantastical. . . .

A collection of stories.
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Canyons of Steel by Tim Holtorf

Justice and redemption from the barrel of a gun.

What happens when an old gun hand makes a decision to turn his life around and set a new course?  Johnathon Tiberius Walker makes the choice of turning his back on the underground military of the Red Hand and try to make right his own sins.  Walker, together with fellow agent Malcom Montgomery Watt, and former assassin Marianne Wollcott, join . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated sporadically.
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Pipeline by Grant Entwistle

Science fiction story set on Mars, why has no-one thought of this before?  Pipeline is the first complete story arc on my science fiction site, “This is not Science Fiction.”. . . .

A collection of stories.
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Shifti by Various

A wiki for transformation stories.

Shifti is a wiki that allows people to post their own stories to be viewed as long as they carry a theme involving shape shifting or some kind of transformation. . . .

A continuing anthology, updated sporadically.
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The Galactic Series by Chelsea Tractor

Millions of years ago, millions of parsecs from Earth, two galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster collided.  Nearly two million years from now, however, two civilisations – the Shango and the Qareen – each dominating half of the resulting collision, will fight the brutal Intersection Wars for dominance of the galaxy.  Yet it’s what will come afterwards that will prove to . . .

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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Freelance Fiction by Doug Lance

an escape into other worlds

This is a site I run independently.  I write a variety of creative fiction on it.  I am rather versatile.  Some posts are blog fiction from the perspective of a fictional character, other posts are stories, and a few are poetry. Poke around a bit and you will find what you enjoy.  I guarantee it. . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated daily.
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FLESH PHANTOMS

Interesting collection of short stories

Editor: Linda Schoales
February 19, 2009

“Flesh Phantoms” is a collection of short stories written by one author.  Some of them are very short, more like story fragments or the author’s thoughts, while others are a more conventional length.  They’re all interesting, sometimes bordering on brilliant.  The tone varies between whimsical and sardonic, but there’s almost always a touch of wry wit lurking in the background, [more . . .]

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NOMESQUE FICTION

A Sassy Delight

Member: NiSp
March 10, 2009

Nomesque Fiction is a collection of quirky stories usually incorporating some supernatural spice or a smattering of faerie dust. None of the sequences appear to be finished but there is enough posted for the reader to get more than a good share of laughs and it seems the author posts regularly. Each post is short enough that you’ll hardly ever [more . . .]

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