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The glowing stone Ruby the Cat, Detective Extraordinaire (self-proclaimed, of course, and recognized officially only by her slightly judgmental goldfish, Mr. Bubbles), padded down Elm Street with the sort of stealth…

The glowing stone

“Right,” she whispered to herself, squinting at the night sky like some feline James Bond, “tonight, we solve the mystery of the glowing stones.”

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#BookReview  The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson If you think small-town Wyoming is all quiet pastures and neighbourly bake sales, meet Sheriff Walt Longmire, who’s about to serve up revenge ice-cold, with a side of buckshot and wry humour. Craig…

#BookReview The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson

If you think small-town Wyoming is all quiet pastures and neighbourly bake sales, meet Sheriff Walt Longmire, who’s about to serve up revenge ice-cold, with a side of buckshot and wry humour.

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The Växjö vexation

Erik Borg, a respected retired archivist, was found crushed in his own study beneath a fallen mahogany bookcase.

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#VäxjöLakeMysteries #VäxjöLake #Mystery #Crime #ShortStory #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas #Kronoberg #VäxjöThriller #Novell

Kinetic Force – Cold warmer The USS Barracuda, a Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine, cut through the frigid black depths of the Arctic Ocean like a silent spear. Beneath a roof of centuries-old ice and above a seafloor o…

Cold warmer

The USS Barracuda, a Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine, cut through the frigid black depths of the Arctic Ocean like a silent spear.

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Black Rain Blues – The man who refused to bloom The rain wasn’t water anymore; it was a solvent, a slow, acidic sigh from a sky the colour of a day-old bruise. It ate paint, corroded metal, and left the skin feeling like old parchment. From the …

The man who refused to bloom

The rain wasn’t water anymore; it was a solvent, a slow, acidic sigh from a sky the colour of a day-old bruise.

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#Fiction #Crime #PostApocalyptic #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Dystopia #PulpFiction #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Vinyl Noir Stories – All I Wanna Do by Sheryl Crow The rain wasn’t just falling on LA; it was laundering it, washing the glitter and the grime into the same choked gutters. I was parked in the slick-wet darkness off Sunset, the neon from a place ca…

Vinyl Noir Stories – All I Wanna Do by Sheryl Crow

The rain wasn’t just falling on LA; it was laundering it, washing the glitter and the grime into the same choked gutters.

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#StoriesInspiredbySongs #SongsInspireFiction #ShortStory #Fiction #Rock

Silent code strikes

The first bomb had gone off at precisely 8:03 a.m. in downtown Philadelphia. The second at 11:47 a.m. in Chicago.

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New Genesis – Moonlit circuit The rain fell in jagged sheets, bouncing off the neon signs like shattered glass. The city was alive, buzzing with the hum of drones and the endless murmur of advertisements promising salvation thr…

Moonlit circuit

The rain fell in jagged sheets, bouncing off the neon signs like shattered glass.

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#BioHack #BioHackers #Dystopia #Hybrids #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory

Edifices of dread London, like a great black lung, breathed fog through its streets that night. Gas lamps guttered as if reluctant witnesses, and the Thames carried secrets in its sluggish veins. Within this choking…

Edifices of dread

Blackspire Hall, a palace of marble and iron, all arches and angelic friezes, commissioned by no patron anyone could name.

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#Fantasy #fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #Crime #Mystery #VictorianMystery #LondonCrime #VictorianFiction

Laughs-At-Rain – Pukwudgie Moonlit City crouched beneath a sky swollen with twilight clouds, its silvered spires glinting in the last dying rays of sun. The streets, paved with smooth obsidian stones, hummed with whispers of…

Laughs-At-Rain

Moonlit City crouched beneath a sky swollen with twilight clouds, its silvered spires glinting in the last dying rays of sun.

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#MagicCreatures #Fantasy #MoonlitCity #FantasyStory #WhispersofMoonlitCity #ThanosKalamidas #Pukwudgie

#FilmReview – In the Heat of the Night (1967) It’s the Deep South’s hottest new odd-couple pairing since mint and julep, and only one of them has a black belt in solving crimes and biting sarcasm. In the sweltering, bug-choked fictional town o…

#FilmReview – In the Heat of the Night (1967)

It’s the Deep South’s hottest new odd-couple pairing since mint and julep, and only one of them has a black belt in solving crimes and biting sarcasm.

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A bite of shame

Her sharp eyes, however, were not on the produce. They were on a man loitering by old Mr. Leonidas’s fruit stall.

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Trailer Park Witch – Sanctuary slugged The desert outside Juárez wasn’t a place; it was a griddle. Heat shimmered off the blacktop in liquid waves, distorting the cacti into dancing, spiny specters. My Airstream, a silver bullet named W…

Sanctuary slugged

The desert outside Juárez wasn’t a place; it was a griddle. Heat shimmered off the blacktop in liquid waves, distorting the cacti into dancing, spiny specters.

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#TrailerParkWitch #Witch #Superntural #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory

Athenian Mysteries – Sibyl’s smoke and mirrors Athens, 426 BC – The Year of the Great Portents The acropolis trembled. Not from war, though the Spartans loomed like fleas with spears but from the shrill cries of panic echoing through the marble…

Sibyl’s smoke and mirrors

The acropolis trembled. Not from war, though the Spartans loomed like fleas with spears but from the shrill cries of panic echoing through the marble hills.

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#Crime #Fiction #Mystery #Adventure #Sleuth #ShortStory

#BookReview  Endymion by Dan Simmons Imagine The Odyssey if Odysseus was chased by a time-travelling pope, haunted by his dead girlfriend’s poetry, and reliant on a terrifying baby who rewrites reality. Dan Simmons’s Endymion is the l…

#BookReview Endymion by Dan Simmons

Imagine The Odyssey if Odysseus was chased by a time-travelling pope, haunted by his dead girlfriend’s poetry, and reliant on a terrifying baby who rewrites reality.

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A bad breed

The whine of the bandsaw finally ceased. In the back room of ‘Happy Tails & Aquatics’, the cheerful sound of crickets from the reptile section was a cruel soundtrack.

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#VäxjöLake #Mystery #Crime #ShortStory #Fiction #VäxjöThriller

The crystal-wing dragoon The sun had barely broken through the clouds over the Andean plateau, but Daphne Sinclair was already perched on a jagged cliff, notebook in one hand, binoculars in the other, and a thermos of coff…

The crystal-wing dragoon

“…beautiful,” Daphne interrupted, flipping open her notebook and sketching the vague shape she had glimpsed.

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Ragnarok echoes – Whispers in the ash The sky was a bruised purple, a wound that never healed. The world had cracked decades ago, but Hilda Carson still trudged through its bones. A long coat of scavenged leather, twin axes strapped to…

Whispers in the ash

The sky was a bruised purple, a wound that never healed. The world had cracked decades ago.

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#Dystopia #Fantasy #Demons #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Fiction #Supernatural #ShortStory #NordicLegends

Ruby Park Guardian – Red pressure The oxygen alarm in Sector C-7 was a silent, polite blink on the monitoring array. A minor pressure dip. Routine. On Mars, “routine” was the lie everyone told themselves to get through the sol. Tec…

Red pressure

The oxygen alarm in Sector C-7 was a silent, polite blink on the monitoring array. A minor pressure dip. Routine.

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#SciFi #ScienceFiction #Mars #MarsColony #HumanColony #Aliens #ShortStory #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas

The Racket – The Sydney sideswipe Liam Sinclair adjusted the cuff of his silk shirt and squinted at the Opera House across Circular Quay. The sun was low, setting fire to the harbor, and the tourists were thick as flies on honey. H…

The Sydney sideswipe

Liam Sinclair adjusted the cuff of his silk shirt and squinted at the Opera House across Circular Quay.

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#TheRacket #Sports #ShortStory #Fiction #Crime #ThanosKalamidas #Noir #Travel #Tennis

Vinyl Noir Stories – I Can’t Stand the Rain by Ann Peebles The rain wasn’t just falling; it was committing a slow, deliberate murder on the city. It hammered on the tin signs over Sammy’s All-Night Diner with a sound like a snare drum gone mad, a relentles…

Vinyl Noir Stories – I Can’t Stand the Rain by Ann Peebles

The door groaned open, letting in a gust of wet wind and a client.

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Storm city cordon

The wind had stopped. For now. The city lay in ruins like a skeleton picked clean, shattered glass glittering in puddles of brackish water.

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Ironwood reckoning The wind howled through the skeletal trees of Ironwood Manor, rattling the windows like the desperate fingers of the dead. A flash of lightning illuminated the jagged silhouette of the mansion, the…

Ironwood reckoning

The wind howled through the skeletal trees of Ironwood Manor, rattling the windows like the desperate fingers of the dead.

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Didactic Proudie – Iron Orphans In the bleak outskirts of a city strangled by soot and steam, where iron arms grasped at the heavens and the sky wept coal ash, there stood an edifice as cruel in function as it was proud in design…

Iron Orphans

The Machinal Institute for the Advancement of Youth. The townsfolk called it The Iron Mother, and what mother it was...

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#MedievalEra #Crime #ShortStory #Dickensian #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas

The Ocean – Plunder below the blue The wind snapped the canvas sails like thunderclaps, and the brine stung young Elias Thatch’s face as he leaned over the creaking rail of the Gannet’s Folly. Somewhere beyond the endless expanse of…

Plunder below the blue

Somewhere beyond the endless expanse of shifting cobalt waves, beneath fathoms cold and black, lay a legend older than any port tavern tale.

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#Crime #Fiction #Mystery #Adventure #Sea #Ocean #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Gilded echoes harvested The fog that night had a conscience. It clung, it listened, it judged.Victorian London lay beneath it like a supplicant, gas lamps haloed in sickly gold, cobblestones sweating with yesterday’s rain…

Gilded echoes harvested

The fog that night had a conscience. It clung, it listened, it judged.

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#Fantasy #fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #Crime #Mystery #VictorianMystery #LondonCrime #VictorianFiction

Therion Sunflare – Phoenix The moon hung low over Moonlit City, casting silvered shadows across its towering spires and winding cobbled streets. The air was thick with mist, curling like serpents around lamp-lit balconies, a…

Therion Sunflare

The moon hung low over Moonlit City, casting silvered shadows across its towering spires and winding cobbled streets.

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#MagicCreatures #Fantasy #MoonlitCity #FantasyStory #WhispersofMoonlitCity #ThanosKalamidas #Phoenix

Venetian Veil – Secrets and sacrifice The rain on the Calle del Traghetto was a greasy drizzle, mixing with the canal’s stench and the metallic tang of blood. The body of Silvio the silk merchant lay not in shadow, but pooled in the ja…

Secrets and sacrifice

The rain on the Calle del Traghetto was a greasy drizzle, mixing with the canal’s stench and the metallic tang of blood.

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#HistoricalFiction #Mystery #Crime #ShortStory #Italy #HistoryPulp #HistoricalFiction #Venice #ThanosKalamidas

Zeppelin Rex – Scales in the Wind The wind above the Brass Frontier always whispered secrets. Today, it screamed. It began with a shiver in the clouds. Not the kind that warns of rain, but something colder, something coiled, old, a…

Scales in the Wind

The wind above the Brass Frontier always whispered secrets. Today, it screamed.

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#Dinosaurs #SteamPunk #Zeppelin #Adventure #Action #SciFi #Humour #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

#FilmReview – My Darling Clementine (1946) A frontier marshal trades cattle dust for cheekbones so sharp they could carve justice into a granite mountain. John Ford’s My Darling Clementine is less a straightforward recounting of the O.K. Co…

#FilmReview – My Darling Clementine (1946)

A frontier marshal trades cattle dust for cheekbones so sharp they could carve justice into a granite mountain.

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