ORIGINAL FICTION
The Stories Are Home
Our short fiction used to live out on other platforms. It lives here now, in full — no accounts, no paywalls, no leaving the site to read it.
Pick your poison
Dark fantasy, cyberpunk horror, a fairy tale retold from the other side of the mirror, and one story that isn't trying to scare you at all. A few are still being written — those are marked below.
Fairest
Everyone in the kingdom loves the Queen's stepdaughter. That's the problem. Told from the other side of the mirror, this is the story you already know — except the villain gets to explain herself first, and you might not like how convincing she is.
By Melf
17 min read
LRRH: Witches Trail
Every witch is tested once. Ealga's mother warns her that magic cuts both ways, then sends her alone into the woods to prove it. Between a fae guide more interested in her hat than in helping, and something in the trees that doesn't want her reaching her grandmother's door, this is Red Riding Hood the way it always should have been told — with real stakes, and a girl who has to earn her power instead of being handed it.
By d33Kode
65 min read
Alabas Warbold
Alabas has the same nightmare every night: something with no eyes that never stops hunting him. Then one night it follows him out of his sleep and into his house. A fae companion, a cursed goblet, and a debt older than his family are the only things standing between Alabas and whatever comes next.
By d33Kode
22 min read
Once Bitten
A simple job goes bad fast — a compromised safehouse, gunfire in the dark, and a body count that's just getting started. Then the last one standing realizes the thing that tore through her crew was never human. A tense, bloody cyberpunk horror one-shot. Read it with the lights on.
By d33Kode
10 min read
Shadows Aftermath
Doxie Rhodes processes crime scenes for a living. She isn't supposed to be able to see the magic bleeding out of them. Set in the neon-and-static sprawl of NYTE City, this is the opening chapters of an ongoing serial following one newly Awakened forensic tech, her wisecracking spirit guide, and the things that are starting to notice her back.
By d33Kode
17 min read
Ethen's Trial
Ethen thought breaking a lock was the hardest spell he'd ever cast — until his mentor Xen reached into the last minute of his life and stole the memory of doing it. A short, sharp introduction to a mage who's about to learn exactly how small his magic really is.
By d33Kode
3 min read
Meet the Author
Thomas orders the same breakfast every Saturday and expects the same nothing out of his life — until a stranger sits down, eats his hashbrowns, and casually mentions that he's been running the universe. A warm, funny, surprisingly tender standalone about the difference between the life you're stuck in and the one you're brave enough to order.
By d33Kode
30 min read