Navigation: Fiction

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Category: Fiction (subcatergories for genre or theme)

Absurdism (To do with the idea that life is meaningless, contrasted with the innate human need to find meaning)

• Wild Creatures Bear No Crisis-- The story of a grieving mother. Trigger Warning: self harm and suicidal ideation, WC: 5,036.

• 🎶⭐🗑️ The Necromancer: Magic or Delusion-- The story of a homeless man, haunted by loss and guilt. TW: harm to animals and children, WC: 4,955
• Wrecked-- A man lives through a car crash, but his Corolla isn't the only vehicle that's totaled. A story on the fragility of self. WC: 5042
• ⭐🗑️ Trapped!-- A tremendous victory, through the eyes of a raccoon. WC: 1,499
• ⭐Surrendered-- A story of lost meaning and God's own grieving. WC: 1,650
• 🎶⭐⛓️‍💥 The End of the World and of All Things-- A man wanders into a physical analogue of a metaphysical plane and sees some weird shit. WC: 4,216
• ⭐Three Guys Die-- An absurdist, an existentialist, and a nihilist walk into a bar. WC: 997
• Johnny the Unlucky-- A cascade of shitty circumstance. WC: 992
• 1️⃣ ⛓️‍💥 The Authority of Immortech-- The search for meaning in an eternal utopia. Also, Sci-Fi. WC: 2,500

Realism (and general/ sad stories that aren't necessarily absurdist)

• 🎶The Cat that Stared-- The tale of a Haitian man approaching the end of his life. Elements of Haitian folklore, language, music, and religion. WC: 1030
• Ⓜ️️⭐Burning the Pages of the Book of Life-- A tale of a family, torn by the violence in Gaza. WC: 2,996
• To the Woman Who Could Not Get Away-- A sequel to Wild Creature's Bear No Crisis. WC: 2459
• Helping Little Brother Out-- An injured fawn's final days. TW: Harm to animals. WC: 1,496
• Ah, be still, foolish heart! -- longing vs obligation, WC: 2,638
• The Third Man Factor-- Survival, against the odds. WC: 1,432

Franciscan

• 🎶⛓️‍💥 The Defector-- A reimagining of St. Francis of Assisi, as a peace maker who would probably be executed as a deserter from war. WC: 2,347
• ®️⛓️‍💥Giovanni the Valiant-- a historical fiction about St. Francis of Assisi's early life and his possible experience in medieval warfare.

🎃Horror (If you like my horror, I've also written a number of horror poems! Check out Tabel of Contents Part 2, pinned on my porfile.)

• ⛓️‍💥 The Depth of a Curse-- A starving woman. Psychological horror. Some gore/ violence. WC: 1,567
• 🎶A Campire Story-- A possible werewolf story. Some harm to animals, and some gore. WC: 4,619
• ⛓️‍💥How I Beat My Writer's Block-- A testimonial! WC: 500
• 🎶Schrödinger's War Hero-- A young man is exposed to the horrors of war. WC: 500
• ®️⭐⛓️‍💥 This Year's Opulant- An "eat the rich" utopia. WC: 2,245
• ⭐Darling Little Uglies-- A killer who thinks her own poetry is to die for. WC: 1,618
• 🎶⛓️‍💥The Madness of the Fox-- A delusional artist, and a mental collapse: WC: 2,738
• 🎶The Ghost Collector-- On a romantic date with a ghost hunter. WC: 2,943
• Dominos-- On the effects of gravity. Some disturbing violence. WC: 500
• ⛓️‍💥The Tooth Faerie-- just a B-movie-monstrous take on a classic myth. WC: 2,730
• Help!-- The sequel to Dominos. WC: 500
• The Mewling Cat-- Of ill omens. Brief gore. WC: 3,705
• 🎶In the Waiting Room-- Liminal spaces and doctors. WC: 500

• The Signal-- A ghost story with an evil twist. TW: Children in peril. WC: 1,713
• Flash Fiction, 6 in 1: Departure, Arrival, Unrequited, Quixote, Saint Francis, The Habit-- 6 flash fiction stories in 1post, themes are: death, birth, ghostly haunting, a modern (and dangerous) Quixote, a gritty telling of St. Francis of Assisi at war, and vampirism. WC less than 100 words per story
• Fish Food!-- PART 1 of the horrorquarium miniseries. B movie style short horror, some gore. WC: 1,499
• The Cryptozoologist-- PART 2 of the horrorquarium miniseries. A young man's desperate belief in selkies ends in tragedy. WC: 4,759
• The Sanctuary-- PART 3 of the horrorquarium miniseries. A story where selkies become real... ish. Body horror. WC: 2,642
• Sheltered-- Where perception is damning. TW: Brainwashing, psychological abuse. WC: 3,947
• Why I'm Leaving-- A husband suffers a lapse in reason or reality. His wife suffers more. WC: 3,687
• The Homophage-- A gritty superhero origin story. WC: 300
• The Troll-- An AI internet troll pushes people to terrible extremes. TW: Suicidal ideation, WC: 30
• Penetration-- Possession or other influences on the mind. WC: 298
• Her Closet Door-- A ghost. Or at the least, a haunting. TW: Suicidal ideation, WC: 299
• Alone-- Worst case scenario for a child left home alone. TW: Child in peril, WC: 299
• 🎶The Wisp in the Water-- A man is haunted. He deserves it. WC: 1,654
• ⭐Escape Rooms Halloween Special-- Entertainment! WC:299
• Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet-- New Halloween decorations. TW: Children in peril WC: 298
• The Agoraphobe-- A man who cannot leave his house. TW: Suicidal ideation, WC: 290
• 🎶The Constant Door-- Kid's mom is a real bitch. WC: 298
• The Doggie Door-- An evil woman and her pet. TW: psychological abuse, WC: 299
• Hell's Hatchway-- You deal with the devil. WC: 296
• Communicable-- Smart homes become smart prisons. WC: 292
• Curiosity-- A desperate father who will do anything to make his daughter safe. WC: 297
• The Shelter-- Cabin fever in the post apocalypse. WC: 298
• Home Alone on Halloween Night-- A trick or treater is not what he seems. TW: Child in peril, WC: 299
• Fantastic Pages-- Fanfiction for my all time favorite book: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. WC: 289
• ⛓️‍💥 Disunity: The Chicken-Shit River-- Of Vampirism and rebellion. WC: 2,499
• ⛓️‍💥Lifeline-- A Poverty Relief Program for Struggling Families! WC: 1976

Fantasy/Sci-Fi

• ⛓️‍💥The Bondage of Immortech-- A distopian world with the beginnings of a revolution, WC: 2,500
• 🎶⛓️‍💥 Sneaking Out for the Dance-- Reimagining the "dance of death" trope from classical art. A bit melancholy, but not really horror. WC: 1,206
• Superstar-- And the search for extra terrestrial intelligence. WC: 2,339
• Burning Low By Candlelight-- A post-apocalyptic world, with some semi-hard sci-fi elements. (Lol) WC: 2,104
• 🎶®️My Happy Boy-- A ghostless ghost story, WC: 2,613
• Seller's Market-- Bad real estate deals. WC: 500
• The Harvest-- A first chapter for a (possible) future novel, where humanity is split into scattered populations following the arrival of dragon-like extra terrestrials, which harvest humans like wheat. WC:3,726
• 🎶⛓️‍💥 Piss and Vinegar-- A first chapter for a (DEFINITE) future novel. An introduction to the resistance. Once completed this story will be the fantasy-horror companion novel to a sister novella with similar themes but centered on gritty realism. WC: 4,994
• The Foster and the Feelings-- Human sacrifices to higher beings, and the contagious, victorious power of empathy. TW: Gore, children in peril. WC: 4,999
• ⛓️‍💥 To Wish for a Blanket-- Of magic and wishes and lessons learned the hard way. WC: 4,869
• Cleaning the Miniature-- A boy and an aquarist explore the whole universe in miniature. WC: 3,028
• My Public Apology-- A reversal of Pandora's Box myth. WC: 2,534
• Forever Man-- He can manipulate time with his mood, and that... blows ass. WC: 300
• Creatorzoned-- That time God got friendzoned by somebody's mom. WC: 1,055
• 🎶Niche, Chapter 1-- A first chapter for a possible future novel about magical ecology, with goblin core aesthetic. WC: 2,499
• Lean Into It: The DSP-- A first chapter for possible future novel-- of escape from the mundane and into the magical. WC: 2,498

Historical Fiction

• ⛓️‍💥 Unsinkable-- A historical reimagining of the lives that converged (or diverged) around the sinking of the Titanic. WC: 6,178
• ⛓️‍💥A Collection of Love Letters from Ayn Rand to Nathaniel Branden-- WC, 1,999

Satire

• Yesterday a Celebrity Did Something-- Celeb worship and our news cycle. WC: 730
• 🎃The Raven, By Edgar Allen Poe, Translated Shittily to Modern English-- WC: 1699
• ⛓️‍💥 Mr. Backlash-- A fictionalized, but (only barely) account of Trump's rise to power. WC: 1,569
• Baldy and the Two Bears-- A gentle satirization of one of the strangest stories in the Bible. Much of the original historical context has been lost in translation. WC: 2,241

Miscellaneous and Just for Fun Fiction

• A Very Stupid Story Just to Annoy You-- Nothing but puns, man. WC: 942
• ⛓️‍💥 The Customer is Always Right-- Just a fun little story about a rotten customer asking to see the manager and having no damned clue. WC: 696
• ⛓️‍💥The 8th Day-- An alternate ending to Genesis 1, WC: 2,604