Mirrors hide souls London fog slithered like a living thing through the cobbled streets, curling around gas lamps and tolling the city into a restless, uneasy hush. The year was 1875, and the Old Bailey loomed over t…

Mirrors hide souls

London fog slithered like a living thing through the cobbled streets, curling around gas lamps and tolling the city into a restless, uneasy hush.

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#Fantasy #fiction #ShortStory #Crime #Mystery #VictorianMystery #VictorianFiction

Predatory Flora – Root of the problem The jungle hummed with a sound like a thousand voices murmuring just beyond hearing. Aanaya Corley crouched on a thick, gnarled branch, her fingers brushing the bark of a towering redwood. The wood…

Root of the problem

Vines lashed out like whips, thorns glinting in the dappled sunlight. Jiaan rolled, pulse rifle barking blue fire.

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#AlienFlora #bleakArchives #PostApocalyptic #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Flora #EnvironmentalCatastrophy #ShortStory

Life echoes – The invitation that shouldn’t exist Azan Garit was not, by any stretch of the imagination, a man who accepted invitations. He was a retired teacher, a specialist in history, philosophy, and explaining why the world made a terrible me…

The invitation that shouldn’t exist

Azan Garit was not, by any stretch of the imagination, a man who accepted invitations.

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#LifeEchoes #Life #Retirement #ShortStory #Fiction #Drama #ThanosKalamidas

First contact isn’t a tea ceremony. It’s a hostage crisis with humor. Five razor-edged sci-fi tales inside. Turn the page. Don’t blink. 🔪🪐

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Shattergods – Chapter One – Theurgy Protocol Shrine-ship Sainthalon – Orbit above Olnak Prime | Uplink Spine Depth 9 | Cycle: 13.772.09–Ascension Delta The orbital shrine-ship Sainthalon drifted in synchronous orbit over Olnak Prime like a re…

Shattergods – Chapter One – Theurgy Protocol

The orbital shrine-ship Sainthalon drifted in synchronous orbit over Olnak Prime like a relic too sacred for gravity.

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#ScienceFiction #SciFi #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory

Steel Lotus – Crimson feather fall The rain had begun just before dawn, a slow patter against the dark, curved rooftops of Chang’an. The streets, still quiet, held the muted promise of a day that would see both the hum of commerce a…

Crimson feather fall

The rain had begun just before dawn, a slow patter against the dark, curved rooftops of Chang’an.

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#fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #HistoricalFiction #Crime #Mystery #China #Emperor

Tails of furry trouble – The shadow gambit It began, as our more peculiar troubles so often do, with a profound sense of personal violation discovered at an inconvenient hour. Mr. Snakibou Barleyglade, a rabbit of considerable girth and imp…

The shadow gambit

It began, as our more peculiar troubles so often do, with a profound sense of personal violation discovered at an inconvenient hour.

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#Fiction #YoungReaders #Humour #Adventure #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Horns of reckoning The sun hung low over the jagged cliffs of Raptor Land, casting long shadows across the rust-coloured terrain. Edna Sullivan wiped the sweat from her brow and adjusted her backpack, eyes scanning t…

Horns of reckoning

The sun hung low over the jagged cliffs of Raptor Land, casting long shadows across the rust-coloured terrain.

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#RaptorTribes #Dinosaurs #Adventure #Action #paleontology #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory

Unliving Justice – Astoria’s A/V haunt The flicker was the first sign, a sickly blue-green pulse against the rain-streaked window of Astoria’s A/V Haunt. It was 3:17 AM on a Tuesday, and the street was a river of shadows and forgotten t…

Astoria’s A/V haunt

The flicker was the first sign, a sickly blue-green pulse against the rain-streaked window of Astoria’s A/V Haunt.

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#Paranormal #Thriller #NewYork #Supernatural #Crime #Ghost #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Vorgath the hollow maw – Dragon The Moonlit City had never known true darkness, for its crystal spires caught the silver glow of the heavens and bent it gently upon the marble streets below. But that night, the light trembled, qu…

Vorgath the hollow maw

Old stones remembered things that living folk had long since let slip from memory, and in the cold, shimmering winds, there were whispers of wings.

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#MagicCreatures #Fantasy #MoonlitCity #FantasyStory #WhispersofMoonlitCity #Dragon

Ashen strokes – Shadows always remember The ruins smelled like burnt wood and dust. DVC-8 rolled forward, its joints creaking softly, camera eyes scanning the broken frames of forgotten lives. It was a painter, an artist robot, one of th…

Shadows always remember

The ruins smelled like burnt wood and dust. DVC-8 rolled forward, camera eyes scanning the broken frames of forgotten lives.

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#AI #ArtificialInteligence #PostApocalyptic #Robot #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ShortStory

Poisoned Crown – Double Game The rain was unrelenting, a rhythmic tapping against the blacked-out windows of the unmarked car parked two blocks from Capitol Hill. Inside, Agent Marcus Vale of Homeland Strategic Counterintellig…

Double Game

The rain was unrelenting, a rhythmic tapping against the blacked-out windows of the unmarked car parked two blocks from Capitol Hill.

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#Conspiracy #Thriller #Crime #Mystery #SpyStory #Fiction #PoliticalThriller #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Trench Redemption – The hound at midnight York, 1919, wore its fog like an old injury, stiff, aching, and not quite healed. Dr. Tomas Godfrey tugged his coat tighter as he trudged beside Chief Inspector Liam Sherwood, whose moustache had a…

The hound at midnight

Dr. Tomas Godfrey tugged his coat tighter as he trudged beside Chief Inspector Liam Sherwood, whose moustache had accumulated a respectable amount of vapor.

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#ShortStory #Fiction #Crime #Mystery #WWI #York #Yorkshire #VetDetective

The gale of Crabby Penney The sea was a restless beast that evening, its waves heaving like the breath of something half-asleep and dreaming of violence. Over this trembling expanse sailed The Yellow Gale, a galleon as batt…

The gale of Crabby Penney

The sea was a restless beast that evening, its waves heaving like the breath of something half-asleep and dreaming of violence.

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#fiction #Pirates #PirateBay #Adventure #Action #PirateLife #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory

Sheriff Step Chaplin – Trailer grudge The early morning mist clung to the pines like a second skin as Sheriff Stephen “Step” Chaplin eased his worn boots onto the creaking wooden porch of the county’s only diner. He adjuste…

Trailer grudge

His battered cruiser sat crooked in its usual spot. It wasn’t the only thing crooked in these parts, but Step had long since made his peace with that.

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#Crime #Western #OldWest #HistoricalPulp #Mystery #NativeAmerican #ShortStory

The Medieval vlogger – The leper and the lawyer I’ve officially survived another day in what I can only describe as the world’s worst Renaissance Faire, except here the turkey legs are small, the wenches are tired, and nobody appreciates my joke…

The leper and the lawyer

I’ve officially survived another day in what I can only describe as the world’s worst Renaissance Faire, except that nobody appreciates my jokes about data plans.

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#MedievalMadness #MedievalJournal #ShortStory

Teacher’s riddles – The perilous pastry chef The arrival of Maximilian von Fizzlebang in the small town of Ängsbacka, Kronoberg County, was nothing short of a spectacle. One Tuesday morning, he simply appeared outside the local konditori, Bak…

The perilous pastry chef

Astrid Jäderberg, seated inside with her best friend, the eternally flustered postmistress Ingrid and her afternoon cup of coffee, observed him over the rim of her glasses.

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#Fiction #ShortStory #Humour #Sleuth #Mystery #Crime

Vanity rings hollow Fog lay upon London like a moral judgment, thick and inescapable, seeping into throats and consciences alike. Gas lamps glimmered as jaundiced stars, illuminating streets that smelled of rot, ink, …

Vanity rings hollow

Fog lay upon London like a moral judgment, thick and inescapable, seeping into throats and consciences alike.

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#Fantasy #fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #Crime #Mystery #VictorianMystery #LondonCrime #VictorianFiction

Glacial frontier – The scourge of the ice The scouting drone’s warning blared across the comms, a sharp, digital scream that cut through the hum of Dome-7’s control center. “Movement detected. Multiple hostiles. Converging.” Li…

The scourge of the ice

The scouting drone’s warning blared across the comms, a sharp, digital scream that cut through the hum of Dome-7’s control center.

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#Dystopia #PostApocalyptic #SciFi #ScienceFiction #IceAgedystopia #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

The canopy crusher

A distant CRASH! rattled the branches like a thunderclap. Birds erupted in panicked flocks.

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#Fantasy #Fiction #StrangeAnimals #RareAnimals #FictionAnimals #AnimalKingdom #ThanosKalamidas #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ShortStory

The gravitational pull of bad decisions

The universe, it must be said, had a sense of humour.

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#GalacticShenanigans #SpaceOperaComedy #HilariousSciFi #UnlikelyHero #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SpaceSnacks #FunnyFiction #Fiction #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas 🤣👖🚀🍅✨

The Hive Directive

Elias Vance, who had been enjoying what he liked to call “a tactical nap”, blinked gummed-up eyes at the ceiling. “Define ‘situation.’”

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#AuroraDawn #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Humour #Space #ShortStory #Adventure #SpaceOpera

Växjö Vanishing by Thanos Kalamidas Ingegärd Lundqvist didn’t feel the heat. She didn’t feel a damn thing. Downstairs the fireplace hissed and spat chewing through fresh logs. A half-empty bottle of Château Margaux sat on…

A con artist’s “suicide” in the ‘80s. Now a new case. Same man? A new Växjö mystery for Polisinspektör Hansson

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The brushstroke defence

Nic Seville didn’t like courthouses. They smelled like sweat, cheap perfume, and bad lies.

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#fiction #crime #lawyer #law #prisonlaw #excon #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory

Reaping Parish – Fields remember blood The gravel crunched beneath the Baldwins’ old pickup as it rolled down the winding lane toward their new home. The late-October air had that damp, metallic scent of rotting leaves, and somewhere be…

Fields remember blood

The gravel crunched beneath the Baldwins’ old pickup as it rolled down the winding lane toward their new home.

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#Paranormal #Supernatural #Horror #Thriller #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

The idiocy and hypocrisy of JD Vance is staggering. No proof & no evidence he accused EU of ...interfering in Hungary’s election while openly endorsing (interfering) Orbán!

#DoubleStandards #HungaryElections #JDVance #Orban #EUDemocracy #ForeignInterference

Lunar sift – The acid jungle The Moon had never asked for trouble. Trouble, however, had a way of finding anyone floating through the void without an itinerary. Commander Aria Vance stood at the forward viewport of Luna Base, …

The acid jungle

The Moon had never asked for trouble. Trouble, however, had a way of finding anyone floating through the void without an itinerary.

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#SciFi #ScienceFiction #PostApocalyptic #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas #Moon #MoonBase

Hollow bounty – Gadburn Contraption Calamity The sun hung low over the blasted plains, painting the ruins of the old world in hues of rust and blood. Ikkols Conner leaned against the splintered remains of a saloon porch, his duster frayed at …

Gadburn Contraption Calamity

The sun hung low over the blasted plains, painting the ruins of the old world in hues of rust and blood.

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#Fiction #Crime #Mystery #PostApocalyptic #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Western #SciFiWestern #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Shattergods – Prologue 136th Solar Cycle of the Theotech Era | Orbiting World: Olnak Primaris | Location: Caldrith-Kar, Varn Caste Nine The towers of Caldrith-Kar rose into the soot-choked sky like surgical needles, each…

Shattergods – Prologue

The towers of Caldrith-Kar rose into the soot-choked sky like surgical needles, each one an invasive prayer stabbed into the flesh of a silent heaven.

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#ScienceFiction #SciFi #Fiction #FictionGalaxy #FictionPlanet #ThanosKalamidas

Narration Noire – Blonde vanished, bourbon stayed It started with a cigarette burn on my only clean shirt and a phone call I almost didn’t answer.“Mr. Lang?” The voice was soft, honey-thick. Rich girls always sound like they’re sipping something w…

Blonde vanished, bourbon stayed

It started with a cigarette burn on my only clean shirt and a phone call I almost didn’t answer.

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#Crime #Detective #Mystery #Noir #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas