Welcome to the Sudden Walk. Here you'll find:
Fiction that's hallucinatory yet grounded in realism. Think Irvine Walsh meets Joseph Conrad.
Non-fiction posts documenting the road to getting published in real time.
No guarantees, no safety nets. Enjoy
The official newsletter of Enchanted Books, an indie bookshop dedicated to indie writers, local authors, and small presses. Located at THE BLOCK in Rio Rancho, NM.
Home of ANTARA, a literary anthology series set in a fictional East Asian city-state + other assorted short stories and flash fiction + REEL STORIES, an essay series on book-to-movie adaptations.
Hi! I'm Shawn, a folk-horror author of multiple books. Living in Japan. Come sit down by the fire where I offer original horror stories and talk about scary folklore from around the world.
Primal Threads: A weekly, apocalyptic dark fantasy, supernatural fiction, and cosmic horror (100-word) short story (drabble) serial novel, published each Friday.
Random essays, prompts, and micro fiction from five ducks in a trenchcoat.
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Short fiction, long fiction, and the occasional musing about bus windows, cobblestone alleys, and other small observations. Dark whimsy / magical realism / liminal spaces mostly; don't trust me with fictional pets.
Ferns of Columbo is a short fiction publication experimenting with themes of identity, transformation, power dynamics and survival through a speculative lens.
Fiction is Culture. No gods, just authors. Underground lit. Ritual crit. The gospel of the broken sentence and the fractured narrative, dissected by the "Official Unofficial Editor" of the Fiction tab.
Multi-resurrected skeleton & maladaptive daydreamer in recovery. My writing: literary fiction that loves you with a knife, horror & dark fantasy stories that embrace you when you least expect it. Creator of the RPG Dewayne Hollow. They/them
From literary fantasy author, Thaddeus Thomas: discover fiction and improve your prose style. "I've finally found the deep dive, line-level craft essays I've been craving." -- Gemorabilia
Ether Dreams is a publication where I write stream of consciousness prose with a pugilist minimalist style. It's a multi-genre publication. Somewhere St. Louis.
Skyforge is where writers learn the deep architecture of their worlds—the pressures and invisible forces that shape every story long before a character appears. This is upstream craft: structural, mythic, and uncompromising. Welcome to the forge.
Wondering, as in, does anybody know what's going on? Fiction, poetry, essays, I am wandering in the dark toward some future hope. I'd like to find you there.
Lunaediesophobia (Loo-Nay-Die-So-Fo-Bee-A) - an abnormal fear or hatred for Monday. Fear not, you found the antidote. The best of horror can be found here, celebrated by it's community. Recommendations, discussions, contests, and more await you..
A short story blog to rehome all my unsettling, eerie and horrific little darlings. I occasionally post essays too on things that interest me.
If you like what you read/hear I have a short story collection called 'Golden Hour' that you can get on Amazon.