Writing Thoughts

Looking over old, unpublished stories with a new eye and publishing them for free, republishing old stories that are out of print, and a reserved space for whatever else I want to write.

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My writer's blog

My personal Substack

My personal Substack

Absurdist horror fiction. Creepy shit. Probably fungi. Definitely slime.

where short stories are king and i recommend them

Thoughts of Nog

fiction, horror, chronic illness, etc.

Glancing blows at things I find interesting.

monthly dispatches from the desk of Hatteras Mange

musings about life, culture, and media.

please answer the prompt

Jessica Dore, author of Tarot for Change, explores human experience using Pamela Colman Smith's images from the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot.