A novel about all those unanswered questions … lcdouglass.substack.com/s/vampire-da...

“I can’t remember the cornerstone.”
They built everything together.
Now one of them isn’t sure it ever happened.
On Mars, even the past is slipping.
Vampire Daddy 12: Hallucinations ↓
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THE PYRAMID AT CANDOR CHASMA, MARS YouTube video by LC Douglass

What lurks on Mars at Candor Chasma? Hallucinations, Lost Memories, Inherited Consequences. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrSG... #darkmatterliterature #Gothic #MarsExploration
#AncientMars #ScifiHorror

Reality doesn't add up. Something is missing. What if we are a species that has forgotten part of its own story? substack.com/home/post/p-... #mars #gothic #speculativefiction #scifi

Our April Fairy Tale Salon for our Patrons is 4/22 at 7PM ET and our theme is spring renewal.⁠ Tell us how you're bringing the spring renewal into your life. To participate, make sure that you’re on the Salonnières tier or higher for April!⁠
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#fairytalesalon

The New Library at Alexandria

Inside the astonishing new library in Alexandria, silent as a page turning, filled by quiet readers reading books, primarily on paper, as they’ve done here for a couple of thousand years. #Egypt

How real are you…
if you only exist inside your comforts?
Go outside.
Touch regolith.

Dome-Dwellers
Vampire Daddy ↓
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#scifi #gothic #speculativefiction

How to create a character’s background One of the most important steps you can take when outlining a short story is to create your main character’s background. This is not necessarily information used in your story but is in your h…

#amwriting #writingcommunity #writingfeedback #indieauthor #indieauthors inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Would you trade extinction to end human suffering? Vampire Daddy, Installment 10: “Departures” substack.com/home/post/p-... #gothicliterature #vampires #magicalrealism #scifi #darkmatterliterature

Author Musings 1: Why Mars? A Starting Point.

Author Musings on my new Martian Gothic novel: Why Mars? A Starting Point. lcdouglass.substack.com/p/author-mus...

"Write this down ... M-A-R-S ... Mars bitches."

Early bird pricing for The Magic of Shakespeare UNABRIDGED ends tonight at midnight ET. We’re looking for 2 types of people: Shakespeare and literature nerds and the Shakespeare-curious.
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#shakespeare #folklore #carterhaughschool

painting with overlapping concentric circles in blue and black

Wave interference, ink on yupo artologica.etsy.com/listing/4480... #sciart

Retrofuturism 25: A Look Back at the 2010s I have a long-running series on this blog  which relates past styles to future sensibilities. It is interesting to see what survives these...

Retrofuturism: Little did we know that it represented the last overlap of human creative practices with a level of technology which would not overwhelm those practices. historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2026/04/retr...

blue and black ink painting of black hole

Black Hole, add to cart #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4480...

Author Musings on my new Martian Gothic novel: Why Mars? A Starting Point. lcdouglass.substack.com/p/author-mus...

We pass the most important information down
through stories because only stories last.
Everything else fades.
This is the First Concordance.

#books #reading #writingcommunity #wolves #funny #booksky

Join us at a FREE writing workshop, Healing Through Writing Festival, from 3/30 - 4/2⁠! Learn somatic writing processes and memoir-writing techniques from skilled healers and writers.⁠
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How would it feel to be the last human in the universe? Start with the little details. Vampire Daddy. “Two-Twenty-Two.” substack.com/home/post/p-... #mars #gothic #amwriting #speculativefiction #scifi #magicalrealism #darkmatterliterature

If the solar system is a body and the planets are chakras, to what entity does that body belong? lcdouglass.substack.com/p/kijos-astr... #awakening #scifi #magicalrealism #darkmatterliterature #mars

We see as through a glass darkly and find … our hero has four faces.
Vampire Daddy, Installment 8: “A Configuration”
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#gothic #magicalrealism #speculativefiction #darkmatterliterature #indieauthors

Interested in a monthly book club focused on “mythic fiction” (fiction inspired by folklore)? We’re talking Charles de Lint, Theodora Goss, Terri Windling, etc. We felt like the world needed a mythic fiction book club… so we made it!
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#bookclub #mythicfiction

Lexi is about to find his soul.
And lose everything.
Vampire Daddy. Read the first 4 installments free:
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Can you have a destiny if you’re immortal?
Every vampire believes there is a moment they cannot escape — the crossroads.
Today, Lexi reached it. "I knew this would happen." Vampire Daddy Installment 7: "A Moment" www.lcdouglass.com/vampiredaddy #gothic #speculativeliterature #scifi #magicalrealism

Welcome to the World of Vampire Daddy open.substack.com/pub/lcdougla... #mars #gothic #magicalrealism #amwriting

Vampire Daddy Installment 6: "Residua"
Humankind is extinct.
Vampires rule Mars.
Lexi—the original test subject behind modern vampirism—must father a child with a mysterious clone. To do that, he must get his soul back:
www.lcdouglass.com/vampiredaddy
#SciFi #SpeculativeFiction #VampireFiction

Vampire Daddy Part 5 "Bloodless Logic"
500 years in the future.
Humans are extinct.
Vampires rule Mars.
Lexi—the original test subject behind modern vampirism—is ordered to father a child with a mysterious clone.
www.lcdouglass.com/vampiredaddy
#SpeculativeFiction #VampireFiction #Mars

He helped sell the cure for mental suffering.
A billion people signed up.
Then human extinction followed.
Installment 4 — Vampire Daddy
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#SpeculativeFiction #DarkMatterLiterature