Friday, April 26, 2024
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Pawns

Pawns: The Cage (a short story)

Written by Zombie Theology His world awakened in blurry shadows and nonsensical sounds. The throbbing in his head was gradually lessening from a jackhammer to a rubber mallet, and a strange, sweet smell attacked his nose and lungs with every labored [...]

Arts and Literature
Eyes

CAN YOU TRUST YOUR FRIENDS?

Written by Richard Jay Parker Title of this week’s blog sounds like a strapline for a movie about body snatching pod people but I’m actually curious about other writers and how they road test their material. Nobody immerses themself in a [...]

Arts and Literature
Dark Writing

Independent Authors vs $$$

Written by Benjamin Jones Let me start by saying…. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, just had to scream and get that out. Now that that’s out of the way, for us unsigned/independent authors, especially those like myself who have spouses and children to support, [...]

Arts and Literature

Alice in Zombieland

by Zombie Theology: This book includes illustrations by Sir John Tenniel and Brent Cardillo. Synopsis: Alice and her sister are playing in a graveyard when Alice follows a Black Rat. She falls into a grave and lands in a wonderful world of [...]

Arts and Literature

Seed

by Rebecca Treadway: The beginning of this novel definitely piqued my interest. A family heading home down a dark, Louisiana street – the father, Jack – spotting the luminescent eye shine of  ‘something’ on the road – the car flips over, and [...]

Arts and Literature
Dark Writing

Using Research for Harder Fantasy

Written by staticsan Amongst the works of Science Fiction, there is a significant subset called Hard Science Fiction. You may have heard the term. Works in that sub-genre usually have science that works, or is at least plausible, and little if [...]

Arts and Literature
Apostate

Apostate: How many bullets are in your gun? (a novel excerpt)

Written by Zombie Theology I drew back and hit the man as hard as I could in the side of his head with both fists. At this point, I did not care that he had recently been in an accident, and [...]

Arts and Literature
Dark Writing

First Forays Into The Dark

Written by ElshaHawk I don’t often write dark fiction, but when I read stories (especially on a website that I collaborate and write on), I want a twist, a villainous discovery, or a nasty end to a character. Sometimes the twist [...]

Arts and Literature

Vampires Everywhere and Not a Drop of Goth!

by Alex Mcdermott: The vampire has made quite the comeback in the last couple of years with the popularity of Twilight, True Blood and Vampire Diaries. You can’t argue with the sales, but for some fans these vampires leave the blood [...]

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