All That Glitters A short story written by Matt Gardner with PlotWeaver: Cards of Creation, a storytelling game made by Mod Hob Cooperative.

Rerelease: All That Glitters.

A frame narrative short story about chasing illusions and questioning who you’re becoming.

Written with random story cards.

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The Hangman Facing the ultimate trickster, I kept guessing until it no longer felt like a game.

You should make the correct choices. Or should you?

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Ice by Anna Kavan – Five Chapters In Five chapters down, and Anna Kavan’s Ice is already proving itself to be less a novel than a feverish novelette-length hallucination. It hits differently than the sprawling sagas I’ve been chewing …

⭐⭐⭐ I finished Anna Kavan’s Ice. tl;dr: I gave it a 3 of 5 stars. Fuller review on blog or Goodreads.

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Ice by Anna Kavan – Five Chapters In Five chapters down, and Anna Kavan’s Ice is already proving itself to be less a novel than a feverish novelette-length hallucination. It hits differently than the sprawling sagas I’ve been chewing …

Five chapters into Anna Kavan’s Ice, and it’s less spree than seizure. A frozen hallucination where compulsion outpaces logic—dive in.
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Attractive title and cover.
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The Possessing Chapter 1

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"It’s a surprisingly engaging dark comedy set in a dystopian world."
~ via Goodreads 😈🤖
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A Forgotten Voice in the Dark – The Lost Soul They left in a hurry. Said it was temporary. Said they’d come back. But the doors never opened again. I wait, counting echoes in the silence, tracing faded memories like dust on glass. Something still...

“I don’t know if this is what a soul is. Or if it’s just a glitch. But I’m still here.”

A story about memory, silence, and what lingers in the dark.

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The Ship of Fools From the short fiction collection The Politics by James Bachman.

New on #Substack & #Spotify!

Podcast Ep: The Ship of Fools

An allegory on ignorance, politics, and media entertainment.
#readers #uspolitics #ExistentialFiction #shortfiction #flashfiction #indieauthors #podcasts #Literature #LiteraryFiction #fiction
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Death and the Penguin is a book so aptly titled I don't need to say much else. #LiteraryFiction #BookRecommendations #BookReview #DarkHumor #ExistentialFiction