Category: fiction
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Excerpt From “Madison Hollow”
By Emmanuel Williams July 26, 2026 * From Chapter Two: “Roy drew himself a bath as the darkness of the heavens breached the marble balcony, the floor, the carpet, and swept over the couch, spreading into the bathroom where he sat soaking. Sadness sagging his eyelids and creasing up his forehead. Memories kept flooding his…
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The Battle at Worland Wall
By Emmanuel Williams July 12, 2026 * JEROD Jerod strolled slowly atop the wall that separated two lands. To his left, an entirely female village of witches called Witchland. To his right, his own land of all-male warlocks, called Worland. Closer at his right strode a young boy, whom he had taken under his wing…
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The Horse and The Fire
By Emmanuel Williams Once upon a time, in a cabin deep into the warm mountains, lived a woman just outside a quiet town. She wore a black dress tied at the waist, and buckled with gold. She wore black, gold buckled, leather shoes at her feet which were covered in white socks. She wore a…
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Vignette: “The Task”
“The Task” By Emmanuel Williams June 26, 2026 * There isn’t a task I wanted to endure least. Here I sit, a half a cup of whiskey left in my worn right hand, and ash growing softly between my other fingers. The truck delivering the mail was already 30 feet gone from the white picket…
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To Earth
* By Emmanuel Williams May 24, 2026 * I don’t believe this. I come in to work and there’s already puke in six cabs. You know who has to clean this up? Me. Every alien in the Surloch system uses these interplanetary roller coasters and they don’t know how mich this socks because none of…
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The Chained Dragon…
* By Emmanuel Williams May 21, 2026 * With arrows thick as pine branch They shot him from the sky Far from the gold in his vast crevasse Unjust and cruel they cried * Yes, they brought him down And chained him near a lady To keep her guarded by day And leave her guarded…
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The Goddess Tide
By Emmanuel Williams May 18, 2026 * We sailed a fortnight Covered in rain * The men aboard my ship Kept relics under their beds In their arms Clutched to their chests * They had heard of the lady Standing in the sky Dressed in white linen Who kept them alive * The calm was…
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Boney’s Cookbook
By Emmanuel Williams In a cabin somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, a woman lived, alone and away. Away from the complications of others and their stupid fucking problems. The only company she found in years had been a book laying on the ground left by… well god knows who… but its pages kept her company…
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O Frankenstein, Thou Monster
By Emmanuel Williams * “Evil in Germany” by Matthias Stadler, The Austrian Times, translated to the English, 17- The town of Ingolstadt, Germany has been ravaged by a string of deadly encounters with what appears to be a man on a rampage through what is typically a quiet and studious community. Attacks began without warning…
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SALT
By Emmanuel Williams * I walk through the forest, as I usually do. Lurking, waiting, but everyday they come along. With their bows and their arrows. Hungry. Hunting. I wonder what it’s like to come home with a meal, but missing some solitary member of the group. It’s quite simple really, I wait. They come.…
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Arya Stark and The Weakener
By Emmanuel Williams Jon Snow has gone missing. No one seems to care. After her attempts to convince Lord and Lady alike to send a search party, to no avail, Arya Stark procured her provisions, and a horse, and left them all to their mead and detachment. “I’ll find him.” And so she rode out…
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Patient: Andrew.
By Emmanuel Williams (Content Warning: Adult Themes) Letter to Dr. Bill Klein from Dr. Van Stidham September 19, 2025 Dr. Klein, I have been treating a patient presenting with Substance Abuse symptoms. Andrew began treatment with overwhelming anxiety complaints with persistent triggers in conversation. Every time he hears of musicians in the rock genre, Andrew…
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