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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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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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

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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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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The gravitational pull of bad decisions

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

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Absurdity Woke 26#008

...and now she’s plagiarising Prince Andrew’s denial script. Next week we will find out that she ...can’t sweat!

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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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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

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

The shades of Raptor Land The sun had just begun its slow descent behind jagged cliffs when Edna Sullivan wiped the sweat from her brow. Her eyes scanned the rocky outcrops, but all she saw were shadows stretching across th…

The shades of Raptor Land

The sun had just begun its slow descent behind jagged cliffs when Edna Sullivan wiped the sweat from her brow.

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

The knight monk – The measure of the heavens Dom Balart had once been a knight of renown, swift with a blade, unyielding in battle, feared across Christendom. Now he was a Benedictine monk, tonsured and robed, his sword sheathed behind prayer…

The measure of the heavens

Dom Balart had once been a knight of renown, swift with a blade, unyielding in battle, feared across Christendom.

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#MedievilEra #Medievil #Knight #MedievilMonk #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #Crime

Mistfell fairytown – Dustclock Mistfell wasn’t much of a town, just two rows of warped porches facing each other across a wide street of dust. A bell tower leaned like it was tired of holding up the sky, and the saloon kept its …

Dustclock

Mistfell wasn’t much of a town, just two rows of warped porches facing each other across a wide street of dust.

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#Fantasy #Fairyland #OldWest #Western #fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #Elf

Branthor Ironmane – Centaur Moonlit City shimmered beneath the pale glow of two celestial moons, one argent, one blue, whose mingled light traced silver across its marble spires and broad stone terraces. The city, cradle of c…

Branthor Ironmane

Branthor Ironmane stood upon the highest terrace, a stout spear clenched in his weathered hand.

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#MagicCreatures #Fantasy #MoonlitCity #FantasyStory #WhispersofMoonlitCity #ThanosKalamidas #Centaur

Drifting Nations – Saltwater harvest The sun bled crimson over the horizon as the Atlas Dawn, flagship of the Pacific Flotilla, cut through the waves like a rusted blade. Captain Elias Voss stood on the bridge, his calloused hands gri…

Saltwater harvest

The sun bled crimson over the horizon as the Atlas Dawn, flagship of the Pacific Flotilla, cut through the waves like a rusted blade.

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#Dystopia #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Posttapocalyptic #Action #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Noir Nonsense – Cash and sunburns The phone receiver was cold against my ear, a dead thing. But the voice on the other end was all greasy enthusiasm, a used-car salesman hyping a lemon with a blown gasket. “…yes, sir, absolut…

Cash and sunburns

The phone receiver was cold against my ear, a dead thing. But the voice on the other end was all greasy enthusiasm, a used-car salesman hyping a lemon with a blown gasket.

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#Noir #Humour #Mystery #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

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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#MagicCreatures #Fantasy #MoonlitCity #FantasyStory #WhispersofMoonlitCity #ThanosKalamidas

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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#Crime #ShortStory #Mystery #Fantasy #Supernatural #Ghost #Paranormal #Pulp #ThanosKalamidas

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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#Action #Adventure #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas #Mystery #Crime #Sweden #Fiction

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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#Dystopia #PostApocalyptic #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Mutants #Cyborgs #Hybrids #Sports #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

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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#Crime #Mystery #WarVeteran #ShortStory #Thriller #ThanosKalamidas

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

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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#MagicCreatures #Fantasy #MoonlitCity #FantasyStory #WhispersofMoonlitCity #ThanosKalamidas #Unicorn

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