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New Story
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New Poem
December 14, 2025, in Fantasy
“Perilous Stare and Friendship Fair”
At dawn I pace the floor, distraught,
Recalling dreams uncertain, fraught
With hazy figures, muffled sounds
That made me flee my sleeping grounds.
I wouldn’t call them nightmares quite,
But still, they strike me far from right.
Adventure’s prelude: that’s the thing
That spooky dreams will often bring…..
New Eldritch poem
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Hallowe’en, October 31, 2025, in Eldritch
“In Which One Partakes in Their Own Disappearance
Soon I will slip into the time of apples
and costumed creatures gathering under street lamps
counting the spoils of twilight’s bounty…
August 18, 2025
we are pleased to present
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in
Black Witch, Snow Leopard, part 1
by Eugen Bacon
“Beware smiles bearing pitchforks”
Black Witch, Snow Leopard, part 2
by Eugen Bacon
“True power doesn’t bow to tyrants”
New Story
Kepler Award
2024 main category winner
June 24, 2025, in Science Fiction
“She wants to claim asylum. Says she’s an unwilling passenger on her mother’s ship.”
Asylum. Paperwork. Yelena looked across her desk at the cause of her inconvenience.
The first problem was to establish the truth of the girl’s age. “Date of birth?”
“Fifteenth of April twenty-one thirty-six CE.”
Yelena’s fingertip hovered over the keyboard. “Twenty-one thirty-six?”
Three hundred and seventy-five years since she was born, all but sixteen, or eighteen, spent in the relativistic timelessness of interstellar displacements.
June 21, 2025
of
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“Nightmare Eater”
I rise from a day’s waking-slumber to feast…
A Reprise Story
In Eldritch
May 30, 2025, in Eldritch
“Black Witch, Snow Leopard”
Eugen Bacon
The Black witch and the snow leopard
wind through memories
of nightmare, heartbeats, fire, and snow.
New Story
April 29, 2025, in Fantasy
The girl sat by the warm fire and ate quietly, tears falling into her soup.
“Do you know what today is?” asked the woman.
“N-no.”
“It’s the feast day of Saint Leonidas. Come, let’s pray, for your mother, for all who lose their way in difficult times, that they may find peace and safety. Later, we can make some flour, and bake piroshki for them.”
Maria Ivanovna woke to sunlight streaming into her small house.
She lit a candle, said a prayer, and checked the red-and-white paper calendar tacked to her bedroom wall. It was April 29th, the day of the Martyr Michael of Smyrna, and also the day of Holy Martyr Leonidas, who had been thrown into the sea, but the sea sent him safely back.
New Story
March 18, 2025, in Fantasy
Lugging his supplies back to St. Jerome’s, Wilfred the Wretched cursed the commute.
He’d told himself living in the cemetery would boost his wizardly power, but he knew it was for the cheap rent.
In his backyard of ominous headstones, Wilfred spent his nights grinding up ingredients, performing rituals, and chanting sacred words.
But in the end, after the smoke cleared…
A New Story
In Fantasy
February 26, 2025, Fantasy
“The Swamp Mama’s Taste in Books”
by Kim Zarins
Wending her way back to her bog, the Swamp Mama found a scrumptious young Danish shivering at the bog’s edge,
despite the large runestone scored with claw marks meaning Solicitors: Always a Welcome Menu Variation.
Her stomach rumbled in anticipation as she towered over him.
“Hold! I’m a monk!” he cried, and flung a page of parchment at her.
And that was a sure way to stop her in her tracks.
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