MeFi Projects

I've started writing a collection of short short stories (more like vignettes, 4 of them amount to ~6000 words) and I would be interested in the feedback of the hive mind. Trigger warnings : body and medical horror, existential dread, absurdism, end of life. Hopefully those who like dark humour and absurd will enjoy them? [more inside]
posted by dragondollar on Jan 30, 2025 - 0 comments

"It was perhaps an hour after midnight on the night before Christmas when the discussion amongst those of us still present turned to the true nature of hell, and more interestingly, whether one would recognise it if indeed we were to find ourselves there..." The Judgement Of History is an atmospheric ghost story in the general Christmas tradition of atmospheric ghost stories. [more inside]
posted by dng on Dec 6, 2024 - 4 comments

I have collected my short fiction from the last ten years into three collections. [more inside]
posted by Scattercat on Nov 25, 2020 - 0 comments

Seven stories for Halloween: Trick Or Treating By Car (a story about sadness and loss, death and dying); Separations (a tale of parallel worlds, break-ups, and breakdowns); Magic Trick (the story of a disappearance); The Wedding (unsettling events at a royal wedding); Front Door (an ever-escalating haunting); Flood (the strange tale of a crocodile home invasion); The Second Moon (a final tale of slightly overwrought melancholy).
posted by dng on Oct 22, 2019 - 0 comments

After three invitation-only anthologies organized by founding editor Paul Starr, in 2015 The Sockdolager made three key changes: an additional editor (Alison Wilgus), open submissions, and a quarterly release schedule. As of December 15th, with Issue #4, we've completed our first year! [more inside]
posted by Narrative Priorities on Dec 16, 2015 - 1 comment