Category: Silk, Velvet, and Bone – No.1
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Silk, Velvet, and Bone – Issue No. 1
One: Letter From the Editor Two: Excerpt – Bram Stoker Three: Horror – BATSTOR Erotica – SIXTY NIGHT Four: Excerpt – Anais Nin Five: Excerpt – George R. R. Martin Six: Fan Fiction – YODA’S LOG Seven: Poetry – A Terrible Fate Eight: Poetry – An Honorable Drink Nine: Letter to Lestat Ten: Excerpt –…
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One: Letter From the Editor
Dear reader, For years, this blog has been through a thousand changes. But this time I’m swinging for the stars. As a committed writer, I’ve always wanted a magazine. And now, with the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing as my new collegiate north star, I’m more driven than ever to get my art…
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Ten: An Excerpt from Anne Rice
[Spring rain. Rain of light that saturated every new leaf of the trees in the street, every square of paving, drift of rain threading light through the empty darkness itself. And the ball in the Palais Royal. The king and queen were there, dancing with the people. Talk in the shadows of intrigue. Who cares?…
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Nine: Letter to Lestat
By Emmanuel Williams September 8, 2026 * Dearest Lestat, You know that I need you. It’s been shit, fuckery, and just a debauchable disaster without you… My vampire, my human, my dawg, my psychotherapist… Dearest Lestat, You know my life, and all I’ve been through, the blood in my heart, that’s kept me from you.…
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Eight: Poetry – An Honorable Drink
By Emmanuel Williams September 11, 2026 * Is there anything else to drink Beside this water, aside this juice Is there anything else to drink Aside my pain, aside these thoughts * Is there ale in these parts A vodka to cure me A whiskey to heal me Some bourbon to fool me * Is…
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Seven: Poetry – A Terrible Fate
By Emmanuel Williams September 11, 2026 Tis a terrible fate To be pushed around Stuck down on your face Or perish flying down Tis terrible really Life without ambition The leaves never grow on such trees Or on men that run from their mission- Pathology leading to death Illness, the mind unwell Shock from frostbite,…
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Six: Fan Fiction – Yoda’s Log
By Emmanuel Williams September 11, 2026 Some time has it been, since a roll in the hay I have had. But now, much to desire there is… Vast, the swamps of Dagobah are. Loneliness can warp the force, and a wife, I have not. The path before me, I have not seen. Until, Jordan was…
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Five: An Excerpt From George R.R. Martin
[Sobbing, Sam took another step. This is the last one, the very last, I can’t go on, I can’t. But his feet moved again. One and then the other. They took a step, and then another, and he thought, They’re not my feet, they’re someone else’s, someone else is walking, it can’t be me. When…
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Four: An Excerpt From Anais Nin
[When she stopped Pietro hid himself behind a bush which was only one yard away from her and where he could see her. She was slowly undressing as people do in a train berth. Sitting down, so as not to be seen from the road, she was unbottoning first of all her blouse while Pietro…
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Erotica – SIXTY NIGHT
By Emmanuel Williams September 11, 2026 Brody had nothing but time ahead of him. On a night that had fallen over a warm metropolis as he approached the train station in front of the library near the shelter he would spend this night and a few more before he found a way out that wasn’t…
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Three: Horror – BATSTOR
By Emmanuel Williams September 11, 2026 Terrance could hardly wait to get his room key. He had run as far as he could from the nightmare waiting for him in what seemed like every town before this, and twice on the road. It was his need for rest that told him to turn in here,…
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Two: An Excerpt From Bram Stoker
[MEMORANDUM LEFT BY LUCY WESTENRA 17 September. Night. – I write this and leave it to be seen, so that no one may by any chance get into any trouble through me. This is an exact record of what took place tonight. I feel I am dying of weakness, and have barely strength to write,…
