Mark Thayer

Joined June 2022

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Pretending
“Wait, so we’re supposed to be scared by the fact that they got away and now this quote-unquote ‘escaped mental patient’ is unarmed because his hook is still on their door?”
By Mark Thayer4 years ago in Fiction
A Broken Land
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. No, the Californian plutocrats sitting on their hoards was a recent development that makes the landscape, for all its chameleon grandeur (because it’s often used to film everywhere else in disguise), a little bleaker for it. It is an unnerving, out-of-body, and dehumanizing feeling to look out over the desert, the sea, the rolling golden hills, or the eternally twinkling hundred-mile city and be struck by how this seemingly infinite paradise is actually quite easily collapsed into a still-large but ultimately finite and very, very lifeless profit sheet.
By Mark Thayer4 years ago in Earth
The Heist
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. Nor were there any these days. But no one could tell you why except the one who got them gone.
By Mark Thayer4 years ago in Fiction
Conservation Efforts
Conservation Efforts There weren't always dragons in the Valley. They came first to Palomar, after some other lizards. Let me start at the beginning.
By Mark Thayer4 years ago in Horror
Stung
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley… but there were always trees and depending on who you ask, trees are arguably more magical.
By Mark Thayer4 years ago in Fiction