Tag: fiction

  • Old No-Eyes

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    Chris Mahon
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    The foundations of the illustrious Grand Schools of immortality have been shaken by the appearance of a small black book—the Nokizi. Its mysterious author, Old No-Eyes, not only claims that the Schools are built upon lies, but that the true path to immortality lies in escaping time itself. However, the only scholar capable of deciphering…

  • Debts Unpaid

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    Chris Mahon
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    After disgracing herself by losing her first, pivotal duel, a young swordswoman named Ryna is forced to serve as a bodyguard for an unscrupulous necromancer called Sozu to pay off her own ransom. Amidst the noise and smoke of the noodle bar, Ryna’s eyes flickered between the drunk slurring to himself near the door, the…

  • The Lotus Gambit

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    Chris Mahon
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    In the freezing depths of a secluded prison, a blind, silver-tongued criminal named Yute challenges Shiro, his ambitious but frustrated jailer, to an impossible bet: he claims he can beat her at a game without seeing the board or pieces. Yute woke to the sound of screaming. He sat bolt upright from the floor of…

  • HYPNOTICA

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    Chris Mahon
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    Enter the mind-bending world of dreamwrights—mages who craft surreal musical performances in grand, shared dreams. Dreamwrights split their lives between the waking city of Senkaku, populated by the living, and the dreaming city known as the Yoshiza, inhabited by ghosts whose hunger for entertainment is only matched by their taste for cruelty. A dead-heat night…

  • “The Rats in the Walls”: Lovecraftian Twitter Fiction

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    Chris Mahon
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    “An occult graffiti crew called the Rat Pack has stolen four NY subway trains. Their spokesman, the bizarre, lyrical, and masked ‘Kilroy,’ is now taunting the police and the MTA, spouting cryptic manifestos and posting strange photos. Readers are ‘recruited’ by the MTA and NYPD to unravel Kilroy’s messages and learn the origins of the…