Draft Scribe – The tip-off By Ellis Witte, aspiring mystery novelist Hi there, I’m Ellis Witte. Aspiring mystery novelist. Please enjoy my humble attempt at storytelling. This is a story about betrayal, danger, and… well, so…

The tip-off

“Detective,” said the voice, low and urgent, the kind that always whispered secrets and sometimes made you think the informant might be on the verge of spontaneously combusting.

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Shadows over thornsreach The wind clawed at the jagged cliffs of Thornsreach, carrying with it the scent of rain and the faint tang of blood. Twilight lay heavy over the valley below, suffusing the gnarled trees and tangle…

Shadows over thornsreach

The wind clawed at the jagged cliffs of Thornsreach, carrying with it the scent of rain and the faint tang of blood.

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Ethereal wrath – Vanished in the stands The Friday night lights of Barnsley High burned bright, neon-white against the damp autumn sky. The stadium pulsed with chants, vuvuzelas, and the sweaty tang of fried food. Tommy Hall, captain of …

Vanished in the stands

The Friday night lights of Barnsley High burned bright, neon-white against the damp autumn sky.

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Tamis Dogs – Glow and behold The night over New London didn’t just fall, it cracked open like a busted neon tube, bleeding light across ruins no one had bothered to fix in decades. The streets smelled of burnt rubber, rain on …

Glow and behold

The night over New London didn’t just fall it cracked open like a busted neon tube bleeding light across ruins no one had bothered to fix in decades.

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#Dystopia #Gangs #Crime #GangsLondon #SciFi #ScienceFiction #PostApocalyptic #ShortStory

Cabby’s folklore – Roses in the backseat Dan had been driving the cab for seven years now, ever since the pension started looking like the stub end of a cigar and his doctor told him he needed to “keep moving, or else calcify.” Calcify! L…

Roses in the backseat

That evening the city was the usual kaleidoscope of too many brake lights and not enough patience.

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Vorak the Fleshripper – Werewolf The moon hung low over the jagged spires of Moonlit City, casting a silver glare that danced across the cracked cobblestones and the twisted iron of abandoned watchtowers. In the streets below, sha…

Vorak the Fleshripper

Vorak the Fleshripper, so called by whispered tongues, had walked this city for decades, and yet none had bested him, not with steel nor with flame.

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Obsidian sins files – The Last Passage The fog clung to the harbor like a shroud, thick and damp, swallowing the world whole. The kind of fog that made Stockholm feel like it was sinking into its own dark past. The air smelled like salt…

The Last Passage

The fog clung to the harbor like a shroud, thick and damp, swallowing the world whole.

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I think I’ll wait for … three days! You just never know with ...Chuck Norris!!!

Monsters Pit – The rust-fed heart This is a transmission from the Aethelred Memorial Arena, formerly known as Central Park. My designation is CER-VOX-77, but the rust-flecked masses who pack the irradiated bleachers call me the Cri…

The rust-fed heart

This is a transmission from the Aethelred Memorial Arena, formerly known as Central Park.

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Fauna confidential  – The great pumpkin smash-up The first call came in at 6:47 PM, just as the last of the autumn sun was being swallowed by the jagged pines of Longdale, Maine. It was from a Mrs. Gable, her voice a tremulous soprano of pure, un…

The great pumpkin smash-up

The first call came in at 6:47 PM, just as the last of the autumn sun was being swallowed by the jagged pines of Longdale, Maine.

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Tender Enigmas – The Forgotten Ones The file for Daisy Hinton was thinner than it had any right to be. Seventeen pages to document the evaporation of a fifteen-year-old girl. The last official note, dated eight months ago, read: ‘Sub…

The Forgotten Ones

The file for Daisy Hinton was thinner than it had any right to be. Seventeen pages to document the evaporation of a fifteen-year-old girl.

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#Action #Adventure #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas #Sleuth #CartoonistSleuth #Mystery #Crime

The Smörgåsbord shotgun

The diner was called Kopp & Käl Cup & Bite. It sat on the old road out of Växjö towards Alvesta, a monument to faded chrome, red vinyl and endless coffee.

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Wounded Skies – Blood on frozen water I’m writing this in a half-collapsed hut that smells like gun oil, wet fur, and the ghosts of whoever lived here before soldiers turned it into a frozen tomb. Officially, I’m here as a corresponden…

Blood on frozen water

I’m writing this in a half-collapsed hut that smells like gun oil, wet fur, and the ghosts of whoever lived here before soldiers turned it into a frozen tomb.

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#WarReporter #WarReport #Fiction #Journalism #War #Humanity #ShortStory

Silent death looms

Dr. Harper Lane tightened her gloves and stepped into the clinic’s main room, where chaos had taken hold.

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Riven Darkthorn – Unicorn The night clung to Moonlit City like a living shroud. Its cobbled streets, slick with the recent rain, gleamed beneath the pale light of twin moons. Lanterns flickered, casting golden halos through…

Riven Darkthorn

Riven Darkthorn moved silently, the hooves of his battle-scarred legs whispering over stone.

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Oneiric panorama – Labyrinth of the Gilded Threads A Scientific Exploration of a Cognitive-Phenomenological Construct The Labyrinth of the Gilded Threads represents one of the most enigmatic environments documented within the corpus of dream-geogra…

Labyrinth of the Gilded Threads

The Labyrinth of the Gilded Threads represents one of the most enigmatic environments documented within the corpus of dream-geography.

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#Fiction #Fantasy #FantasyWorlds #PseudoScientific #ImagineWorlds #ShortStory

Sidewalks – How a retirement plan got complicated The man was sweating, though it wasn’t the heat that was making his skin slick. It was the pressure; the kind that grips you by the throat and squeezes until you can’t breathe. He checked the watch…

How a retirement plan got complicated

The man was sweating, though it wasn’t the heat that was making his skin slick.

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#Crime #Mystery #Noir #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

#FilmReview – Boyhood (2014) This is the only film where you can watch an actor go through puberty and a director go through several filming budgets in real-time. Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a cinematic magic trick so audac…

#FilmReview – Boyhood (2014)

This is the only film where you can watch an actor go through puberty and a director go through several filming budgets in real-time.

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The Kaisariani canary

The olive oil hissed in the pan, a familiar morning song.

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Neighbourly Herald – A Brother in the Teapot From our own Correspondent It is a truth universally unacknowledged (though universally whispered) that a quiet family teatime is one of the more fragile institutions of English domestic life. One …

A Brother in the Teapot

It is a truth universally unacknowledged (though universally whispered) that a quiet family teatime is one of the more fragile institutions of English domestic life.

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#Fiction #Reporter #journalism #News #ShortStory #SmallTownNews

The glowing stone Ruby the Cat, Detective Extraordinaire (self-proclaimed, of course, and recognized officially only by her slightly judgmental goldfish, Mr. Bubbles), padded down Elm Street with the sort of stealth…

The glowing stone

“Right,” she whispered to herself, squinting at the night sky like some feline James Bond, “tonight, we solve the mystery of the glowing stones.”

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#BookReview  The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson If you think small-town Wyoming is all quiet pastures and neighbourly bake sales, meet Sheriff Walt Longmire, who’s about to serve up revenge ice-cold, with a side of buckshot and wry humour. Craig…

#BookReview The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson

If you think small-town Wyoming is all quiet pastures and neighbourly bake sales, meet Sheriff Walt Longmire, who’s about to serve up revenge ice-cold, with a side of buckshot and wry humour.

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The Växjö vexation

Erik Borg, a respected retired archivist, was found crushed in his own study beneath a fallen mahogany bookcase.

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Kinetic Force – Cold warmer The USS Barracuda, a Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine, cut through the frigid black depths of the Arctic Ocean like a silent spear. Beneath a roof of centuries-old ice and above a seafloor o…

Cold warmer

The USS Barracuda, a Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine, cut through the frigid black depths of the Arctic Ocean like a silent spear.

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Black Rain Blues – The man who refused to bloom The rain wasn’t water anymore; it was a solvent, a slow, acidic sigh from a sky the colour of a day-old bruise. It ate paint, corroded metal, and left the skin feeling like old parchment. From the …

The man who refused to bloom

The rain wasn’t water anymore; it was a solvent, a slow, acidic sigh from a sky the colour of a day-old bruise.

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#Fiction #Crime #PostApocalyptic #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Dystopia #PulpFiction #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Vinyl Noir Stories – All I Wanna Do by Sheryl Crow The rain wasn’t just falling on LA; it was laundering it, washing the glitter and the grime into the same choked gutters. I was parked in the slick-wet darkness off Sunset, the neon from a place ca…

Vinyl Noir Stories – All I Wanna Do by Sheryl Crow

The rain wasn’t just falling on LA; it was laundering it, washing the glitter and the grime into the same choked gutters.

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Silent code strikes

The first bomb had gone off at precisely 8:03 a.m. in downtown Philadelphia. The second at 11:47 a.m. in Chicago.

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New Genesis – Moonlit circuit The rain fell in jagged sheets, bouncing off the neon signs like shattered glass. The city was alive, buzzing with the hum of drones and the endless murmur of advertisements promising salvation thr…

Moonlit circuit

The rain fell in jagged sheets, bouncing off the neon signs like shattered glass.

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#BioHack #BioHackers #Dystopia #Hybrids #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory

Edifices of dread London, like a great black lung, breathed fog through its streets that night. Gas lamps guttered as if reluctant witnesses, and the Thames carried secrets in its sluggish veins. Within this choking…

Edifices of dread

Blackspire Hall, a palace of marble and iron, all arches and angelic friezes, commissioned by no patron anyone could name.

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Laughs-At-Rain – Pukwudgie Moonlit City crouched beneath a sky swollen with twilight clouds, its silvered spires glinting in the last dying rays of sun. The streets, paved with smooth obsidian stones, hummed with whispers of…

Laughs-At-Rain

Moonlit City crouched beneath a sky swollen with twilight clouds, its silvered spires glinting in the last dying rays of sun.

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