Category: Fiction
- The Aeliana Archive 31 August 2026
In a near-future where the Consensus controls acceptable thought, the Mnemosyne Collective exhumes the Aeliana Theory—a dead paradigm claiming that planets are not dead rocks but larval minds trapped in singular…
- The Long Fellow of Oakhaven 30 August 2026
The village of Oakhaven did not fear the Blood Moon in the manner of lesser, more conventional hamlets. While neighboring townships quaked at the thought of hulking lycanthropes—rippling abdomens, heaving…
- Comet Babies 30 August 2026
In the spring of 1994 a comet burned across the northern English sky. Days later women on a forgotten council estate began to starve and swell with something that was not human. The NHS called the pregnancies non-viable…
- Lost Lovecraft: The Unfinished Fictions and the Literature That Might Have Been 22 August 2026
There is a temptation, when a writer dies comparatively young, to imagine a locked drawer. Inside it lies the unwritten masterpiece: the novel that would have completed the system, transformed…
- Skinny Wolf 16 August 2026
There was a woman called Clara Benn who had never been ugly until the world explained to her, in considerable detail, that she was. She was thirty-four and worked in…
- Human Resource Capital: A Public Sector Field Guide 15 August 2026
There was a time when organisations employed people. They were called staff. Some were good. Some were useless. Some knew where the stopcock was, which made them effectively immortal. Then…
- The IT Department Survival Guide for New Starters 14 August 2026
Welcome to IT. You have been recruited because the organisation believes you possess valuable technical skills, sound judgement and the ability to remain calm under pressure. Within three weeks you…
- Through Bad Weather 11 August 2026
INTRODUCTION My name is Caroline Wade, and for five years I lived in an old cabin on a mountain in western Virginia. That makes the whole business sound more intentional…
- The Domestication of the Devil: A Cultural History of the Postmodern Witch Film 11 August 2026
There exists a peculiar shelf in the video store of the collective unconscious, somewhere between the horror section and the romantic comedy aisle, dusty with incense ash and glitter. It…
- The Masquerade of Necessary Monsters 11 August 2026
The Masquerade of Necessary Monsters is a savage contemporary satire about predation disguised as community. When an outsider enters a vampire role-play convention searching for her missing friend, she finds a…
- The New Eden Lottery 11 August 2026
The New Eden Lottery is a furious speculative satire told by a young activist who distrusts every ideology yet borrows from all of them. A global lottery funds a golden Mars ark for billionaires, promising absolute…
- Þe Rym of Grundfarver and Hys Shoggvth 11 August 2026
Hark, knave-bairns, hark ye weel,Whan winter byteth toe and heel,Whan swyn lie warme and men lie cold,And piss i’ þe pot turneth rimy-old. Shut þy gobbe and bar þe dore,For…
- The Saga of Grand Elric and the Yellow King 11 August 2026
There was a man called Elric Ketilsson, though in his old age men named him Grand Elric, for he had seen seven kings crowned, buried three sons, broken two sea-kings…
- The Old Gods Are Not Dead: Folk Horror and the Terror of the Past That Refuses to Stay Buried 30 July 2026
Why we keep telling stories about villages that whisper, fields that watch, and rituals that demand blood. There is a particular kind of dread that does not come from a…
- My Tentacles Romance 30 July 2026
Funny, strange, and faintly icky, My Tentacles Romance is a modern monster-love story about fetish, shame, appetite, consent, and the difficult business of treating the desired body as a person rather than a fantasy…
- The Vampire in the Post-Modern Institution: Notes on Survival, Spreadsheet, and the Eternal Meeting 30 July 2026
I. The Relocation It took me fifteen years of writing vampire fiction to realize I was not writing about the undead. I was writing about middle management. This is not…
- The Filing Cabinet and the Ghost: On Creativity, Collapse, and the Word Processor That Finished My Sentences 30 July 2026
I. The Apparatus of Becoming I wrote my first story on a computer that weighed as much as a modest tombstone. It was 1997, or possibly 1998 — dates shift,…
- We Have All Become Fanfic Writers Now 30 July 2026
A Conversation About Culture, Copies, Recognition and the Need to Be Seen “Fanfiction,” I said, “is what happens when people still feel the need to make things, but the available…
- The Machine at the Heart of the Gift: What Fanfiction Writers Actually Think About AI 30 July 2026
The machines are learning to write. The question is whether we are learning to read
- The Invisible Republic: What AO3’s Most-Loved Stories Reveal About Who We Are 30 July 2026
Fanfiction is the largest body of unpaid, un-commissioned narrative writing in human history. It is also, arguably, the most honest. No one is writing a 7.9-million-word fic for money. They are writing it because the…