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    “Atomic Chess” by Josh Pearce – 2.6

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 30, 2026
    • Post category:Misc./Science Fiction/Short Story

    Bourbon Penn #38, April 2026 Set during the Cold War, “Atomic Chess” weaves together two parallel narratives — one aboard a Soviet nuclear submarine, the other in a Havana café…

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    “Queen of Hell” by Jan Stinchcomb – 3.5

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    • Post published:March 30, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Misc./Short Story
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    Bourbon Penn #38, April 2026 The story is narrated by an unnamed woman living in Los Angeles who observes, with skeptical detachment, the unraveling of her childhood friend Jenn Ryan.…

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    “The Bookpusher” by Cody Goodfellow – 3.4

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    • Post published:March 29, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Misc./Short Story
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    Bourbon Penn #38, April 2026 Gary Wittkow, a teenager with a petty criminal record, wakes up in a sheriff’s holding cell babbling in what turns out to be Old English,…

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    “Rocky Mountain Gothic” by Ev Datsyk – 2.8

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 29, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Misc./Short Story
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    Augur Literary Society, #8.3 November 2025 In an unnamed mountain town bordered by dense forest, a class of second graders is supernaturally summoned into the woods during recess. The forest…

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    “The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood” by Angela Liu – 3.8

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 28, 2026
    • Post category:Horror/Misc./Short Story
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    Apex, February 2026 A group of friends — the unnamed narrator, Agnes, Peter, Lina, and Jin — are vacationing on a remote Japanese island known for its sea turtles, staying…

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    “Piglet Delivers” by Maria Haskins – 3.4

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 25, 2026
    • Post category:Fantasy/Misc./Short Story
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    Apex, February 2026 In a dystopian reimagining of the Hundred Acre Wood, Piglet is a long-haul trucker employed by Kanga Corp, the corporate empire that Kanga has built in the…

    Continue Reading“Piglet Delivers” by Maria Haskins – 3.4

    “Ascension” by P.L. McMillan – 2.3

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 25, 2026
    • Post category:Horror/Misc./Short Story

    Apex, February 2026 Sam is a competitive climber who lost their left arm in a factory accident — distracted by a voice note from their partner Abithe while initiating a…

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    “The Sea Child” by Justin Wesley Ferguson – 3.7

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 24, 2026
    • Post category:Beneath Ceaseless Skies/Fantasy/Short Story
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    Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 On the second anniversary of a storm that claimed her son Gunter, his wife Liesel, and their two young boys Rolf and Willi, elderly Gerda…

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    “Mother’s Hearth” by W.A. Hamilton – 3.7

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    • Post published:March 23, 2026
    • Post category:Beneath Ceaseless Skies/Fantasy/Novelette
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    Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 In the aftermath of a world-altering catastrophe called the Sundering—a cataclysm that swallowed cities into the sea and scattered families across the northlands—Sigrun, a young…

    Continue Reading“Mother’s Hearth” by W.A. Hamilton – 3.7

    “Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. 2” by Jason Sanford – 3.8

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    • Post published:March 23, 2026
    • Post category:Beneath Ceaseless Skies/Novella/Science Fiction
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    Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 The story concludes the two-part novella following Lande, a young mountain-touched mechanic working at an Outranger-controlled dreamstone mine deep in the veil — a liminal…

    Continue Reading“Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. 2” by Jason Sanford – 3.8
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