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A young man named Liam Wheelwright investigates the gruesome deaths of his estranged parents and discovers The Pneuma Chocolatiers, a shop that specializes in the creation of emotional chocolate. He is soon pulled into a world where spells have a smell and it is possible to fall into the hidden spaces of the heart. It is a journey of self-discovery. . . .
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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 . . .
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Veteran detective Jake Burleigh is chosen to solve a case using an amazing new technology. It’s only after he finishes the job that the real mysteries begin. Strangers in the Brain is a mysterious detective noir blended with a delirious, dreamlike sci-fi twist. . . .
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In 1996, Dr. Beuctus Guggenheim, head of Research and Development at Cantspell’s Olde Fashund Soupe Phactorie, was given the task of creating a preservative for cream of mushroom soup. His actions set into motion a cataclysm, opening a link between our world and the ‘Mushroom Zone’. Soon a legion of Mushrooms claimed our world for their empire. A campaign of . . .
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The story of Cirno Excalibur, who found a pole in his back yard, got struck by weird lightning, and went with his new talking pole to go fight the demons. . . .
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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 . . .
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Oktober is a labyrinthine, psychological road novel that blurs the line betweens reality and fantasy. Each chapter is divided into four sections, each of the sections is a journal entry written by one of the main characters. Thus, each chapter is told four times over, from each character’s point of view. The characters openly invite the readers into their minds, . . .
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The small town of Minde goes from being a middle American, everyone-knows-everyone mountain town to a town torn apart by fear and suspicion when fifteen year old Benny Jorgens disappears, and then shows up a few days later, a completely ruined form of life. His mind has been ripped from his body and left imprisoned, helpless as his body is . . .
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The Khandroma Project is the personal, interactive and ever-evolving portfolio of Khandroma. The Khandroma Project has it all from experimental/hybrid fiction to poetry to stream-of-consciousness writing. Come on in, kick off your shoes, grab a cup of tea and get comfy! Comments, feedback, and constructive criticism are encouraged at The Khandroma Project where dialogue is nurtured. Art is a conversation; . . .
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A young man named Liam Wheelwright investigates the gruesome deaths of his estranged parents and discovers The Pneuma Chocolatiers, a shop that specializes in the creation of emotional chocolate. He is soon pulled into a world where spells have a smell and it is possible to fall into the hidden spaces of the heart. It is a journey of self-discovery. . . .
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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 . . .
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Follow e- the free Electron. Look at the world from a new perspective. Solve the puzzle and follow the clues to discover the travels of e- through your picoverse. Life as an Electron, the seminal member of the Coffee Break Blog stable, offers the Science Minded, budding Experimenters and Educators the ability to participate in the adventures of e- . . .
In the world that never really belonged to humans, time is running out. It is a strange feeling in the air and many men have their-own dreams about how to change it. One, a strange, unknown man even to people who are working for them is working on a top secret project in the near future, trying to overcome . . .
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.
"Strangers in the Brain" is the story of Detective Burleigh, who participates in an experimental form of detective work—he uses a device called the Flytrap to enter the mind of a criminal and extract where he’s hidden the bodies of the people he’s murdered.
While the premise is similar to the [more . . .]