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Tag Archives: Fiction
Is short fiction dead yet?
Realms of Fantasy, one of my favorite magazines and one to which I’d eternally hoped to one day sell my work, is shutting down. There are fewer and fewer markets out there for short fiction. I’m frankly starting to think, … Continue reading
The Balance in the Blood (part six)
Continuing a serialized novelette. Parts One, Two, Three, Fourand Five published previously. “He is dead,” Willem said, looking up from the corpse. “Then let us begin.” Doktor Muething injected the vampire blood into the second dead Jew. This one was … Continue reading
The Balance in the Blood (part five)
Continuing a serialized novelette. Parts One, Two, Three, and Four published previously. If Death is the absence of Life, Gunther Schliemann wrote, and if Life is the absence of Death, then Vampirism is the absence of both. Willem was so … Continue reading
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A little while ago, I was tagged by SamuraiFrog with the “Story Meme”, which goes like this: a story is given to you in part, you continue it a bit, and then you pass it on to some other folks. … Continue reading
The Balance in the Blood (part four)
Continuing a serialization of a horror novelette. Part One, Part Two, and Part Three, published previously. Willem took a lukewarm shower, put on clean clothes, and then went back to the laboratory where he found Doktor Muething standing beside the … Continue reading
The Balance in the Blood (part three)
Continuing a serialization of a horror novelette. Part One and Part Two, published previously. Willem jumped back with a gasp. He tried to tear his eyes away from the dead Jew’s cold, bloodless stare but he could not. “Doktor?” His … Continue reading
The Balance in the Blood (part two)
Continuing a serialization of a horror novelette. Part One here. Willem arrived at precisely 4:53. He found Doktor Muething sleeping on a folding cot in the corner with a book in his hand. There were more open books and papers … Continue reading
The Balance in the Blood (part one)
This is a horror story I wrote more than five years ago. The concept behind the tale is most definitely the most horrific I’ve done thus far, and I’m still unsure of the moral point behind the story; I write … Continue reading
“Lelawala” (fiction)
Well, the winners were announced today in the Buffalo News‘s short story contest, and my winning streak has ended at one. Oh well…I can’t even get angry at the winner, since it turns out that he and I both work … Continue reading
“To Weep When I Am Glad” (fiction)
I was looking through some older files on the old hard drive, and I found this story that I’d forgotten, despite the fact that I excerpted it on this blog…exactly three years ago today, believe it or not. Anyway, here’s … Continue reading