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Starman by David Bowie

The rain fell on Bay City like a curse, a steady, grimy drizzle that turned the neon signs into bleeding smears of colour against the wet black asphalt.

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Starman by David Bowie

The rain fell on Bay City like a curse, a steady, grimy drizzle that turned the neon signs into bleeding smears of colour against the wet black asphalt. I was at my desk, nursing a cheap bottle of …

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 4h

The screaming stone beetle

Wind howled through the cliffside crevices, whispering myths that had likely driven lesser climbers to madness or the tavern.

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#Fantasy #Fiction #StrangeAnimals #RareAnimals #FictionAnimals #AnimalKingdom #SciFi #ShortStory

The screaming stone beetle

Daphne Sinclair dangled from a rope halfway up the limestone face of Mount Parnassus, her boots scraping for grip as a cascade of pebbles tumbled past her. Wind howled through the cliffside crevice…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 4h

Dig, Slay, Love

The night air over Roanoke Island was thick with salt and secrets.

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Trailer Park Witch – Dig, Slay, Love

The night air over Roanoke Island was thick with salt and secrets. Annika Malum adjusted the straps of her leather trench coat, her boots crunching over dead leaves as she approached the dig site. …

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 5h

The house of black ivy

The air of the Louisiana bayou does not simply hang; it presses, a hot, wet hand over the mouth.

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#Crime #ficttion #Mystery #Goth #PostApocalyptic #ShortStory #SciFi #ThanosKalamidas

Pallid Echoes – The house of black ivy

The air of the Louisiana bayou does not simply hang; it presses, a hot, wet hand over the mouth. The scent of decay and jasmine is a cloying perfume that cannot mask the stench of rot beneath. I ha…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 1d

Silent and deadly return

Fifty-three, retired, and living under a name that wasn’t his own, he looked like any other man nursing black coffee at midnight. Except he wasn’t any other man.

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#BlitzOps #Action #Thriller #Adventure #ShortStory #Spy #Crime

Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 1d

Emerald skyfall

No one knew how. One instant, Luna Base’s scientists were staring at Earthrise; the next, their instruments shrieked, spacetime wrenched, and Earth was gone.

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#SciFi #ScienceFiction #PostApocalyptic #ShortStory #Moon #MoonBase

Lunar sift – Emerald skyfall

The Moon had never been meant to move. It was the faithful satellite, silent and obedient, circling Earth for billions of years. Until the day it wasn’t. No one knew how. One instant, Luna Base’s s…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 1d

Ghosts at High Noon

The sun hung like a molten coin over Richdune, baking the adobe walls and warped boardwalks until the air shimmered.

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#Action #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #OldWest #Western #Sheriff

Pearl’s Star – Ghosts at High Noon

The sun hung like a molten coin over Richdune, baking the adobe walls and warped boardwalks until the air shimmered. Pearl “Whip” Vaughan leaned against the porch post of her office, th…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 2d

The spikes of doom

Vines thicker than a man’s arm draped from twisted trees, their dripping tendrils swaying in the wind like the fingers of some waiting predator.

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The spikes of doom

Rain fell in silver sheets across the tangled green hell of Raptor Land. Vines thicker than a man’s arm draped from twisted trees, their dripping tendrils swaying in the wind like the fingers of so…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 2d

Whispers beneath silk

Fog slithered over the gaslit streets of London, clinging to the cobblestones like a shroud.

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

Whispers beneath silk

Fog slithered over the gaslit streets of London, clinging to the cobblestones like a shroud. In the murky alleys of Whitechapel, secrets walked in boots and lace gloves, whispering in corners, drin…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 2d

The weight of the sun

The dawn broke over Cusco with a thin, golden light that kissed the terraces of the city.

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#Inca #HistoricalFiction #IncaEmpire #Mystery #Crime #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Inca keeper – The weight of the sun

The dawn broke over Cusco with a thin, golden light that kissed the terraces of the city. Smoke from cooking fires rose like ghostly serpents into the sky, twisting around the great temples and pal…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 2d

Ice and Blood

The butcher’s shop in East London smelled of copper and bleach. A place where meat was carved, but not all of it was livestock.

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#Fiction #London #Crime #Mystery #RobinHood #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Hood of Vengeance – Ice and Blood

The butcher’s shop in East London smelled of copper and bleach. A place where meat was carved, but not all of it was livestock. Dr. Elias Voss wiped his hands on his apron, humming as he checked th…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 3d

Blood on the balcony

Next door, old man Dimitris watered his geraniums, muttering about the youth.
Then, the scream.

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#ShortStory #AthensNoir #GreekNoir #Fiction #Crime #Mystery #Greece #Dictatorship #Noir #Sleuth #Grandmother #Vyronas #NeighbourhoodCrimes

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 3d

The Wedding People, a novel by Alison Espach

Move over, typical wedding guest. There’s a new professional in town, and she didn’t come for the cake.

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The Wedding People, a novel by Alison Espach

Move over, typical wedding guest. There’s a new professional in town, and she didn’t come for the cake. 🎂 In Alison Espach’s brilliantly sharp The Wedding People, our heroine, Phoebe, arrives at a …

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 3d

Blacktooth Bill and the devil’s bargain

The moon rode high over the frothing sea, casting a pale light across the deck of the Bloody Mercy.

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#fiction #Pirates #PirateBay #Adventure #Action #PirateLife #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory

Blacktooth Bill and the devil’s bargain

The moon rode high over the frothing sea, casting a pale light across the deck of the Bloody Mercy. Every timber of that weather-beaten ship creaked as if it feared the man who ruled it, Blacktooth…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 3d

Brynja Frostbeard

The Moonlit City lay deep within the northern cliffs of Ered Rhun, carved of silver-veined stone and blue marble that shimmered faintly under the watch of the winter moon.

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#MagicCreatures #Fantasy #MoonlitCity #FantasyStory #Dwarf

Brynja Frostbeard – Dwarf

The Moonlit City lay deep within the northern cliffs of Ered Rhun, carved of silver-veined stone and blue marble that shimmered faintly under the watch of the winter moon. Its halls were silent tha…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 3d

Silent Fires, Broken Souls

The sun was a cruel overseer, hammering down on cracked earth as if to burn the truth into every grain of sand.

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#Journalist #WarReporter #WarReport #Fiction #Journalism #WoundedSkies #War #Humanity #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory

Wounded Skies – Silent Fires, Broken Souls

October 8, 1973 — Sinai Desert, Egypt The sun was a cruel overseer, hammering down on cracked earth as if to burn the truth into every grain of sand. Thane Horton crouched behind a shattered tank, …

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 3d

Gadburn Contraption Calamity

The sun hung low over the blasted plains, painting the ruins of the old world in hues of rust and blood.

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#Fiction #Crime #Mystery #PostApocalyptic #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Western #SciFiWestern #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Hollow bounty – Gadburn Contraption Calamity

The sun hung low over the blasted plains, painting the ruins of the old world in hues of rust and blood. Ikkols Conner leaned against the splintered remains of a saloon porch, his duster frayed at …

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 4d

Numb by Linkin Park

The rain wasn’t just falling in Port Cassidy; it was trying to beat the city into a pulp.

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Numb by Linkin Park

The rain wasn’t just falling in Port Cassidy; it was trying to beat the city into a pulp. It hammered on the roof of my battered Oldsmobile and blurred the neon sign of the dive across the street –…

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Ruby and the case of the firefly fiasco

It was a night so dark that even the streetlamp on Mrs. Piggott’s corner was humming in protest.

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#CatCrimes #PetDetectiveRuby #RubyTheCat #RubyForensics #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory

Ruby and the case of the firefly fiasco

It was a night so dark that even the streetlamp on Mrs. Piggott’s corner was humming in protest. I, Ruby, the neighbourhood’s only, some would say finest, pet detective, was prowling my usual beat.…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 4d

The giant in glass towers

Jack had always been good at killing giants. The trick wasn’t strength, it was wit, timing, and an unhealthy tolerance for falling from ridiculous heights.

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#Fantasy #FairyTales #FairyTalesHeroes #Action #Megapolis #Fiction

The giant in glass towers

Jack had always been good at killing giants. The trick wasn’t strength, it was wit, timing, and an unhealthy tolerance for falling from ridiculous heights. These days, though, giants didn’t live on…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 4d

Blood & salt

The storm came at them like a living thing, black waves rising like jagged teeth, swallowing the weaker ships whole.

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#Dystopia #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Posttapocalyptic #Action #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Drifting Nations – Blood & salt

The Nomadic Flotilla Aurora’s DawnSomewhere in the North Atlantic The storm came at them like a living thing, black waves rising like jagged teeth, swallowing the weaker ships whole. Captain Elias …

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 4d

War Declared by Wordflub

The village of Fjäderhult was a peaceful place, until the day the recycling schedule arrived.

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#Fiction #Fika #Funny #Humour #Sweden #ShortStory #FunnyVignette #ThanosKalamidas

Fika Fiasco – War Declared by Wordflub

The village of Fjäderhult was a peaceful place, until the day the recycling schedule arrived. It was a document so fiendishly complex that even the local mathematician, Professor Blenkinsop, threw …

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 5d

Cul-de-sac, Växjö!
116. Watcher in the Woods

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#Växjöcity #VäxjöLake #Växjöcity #culdesacväxjö #växjö #vaxjocity #växjömystery #växjöbrott #pensionär #växjöpensionär #pensionering #mystär #småland #mittvaxjocity

116. Watcher in the Woods

The Swedish countryside was silent, its stillness punctuated only by the occasional rustle of leaves or the far-off call of a bird. The air was crisp, each breath sharp against my lungs as I walked…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 5d

My Father, the BTK Killer (2025)

In this Netflix documentary, Kerri Rawson invites us into her very unique family reunion.

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My Father, the BTK Killer (2025)

A family reunion you’ll never forget 🎬 The Plot In this Netflix documentary, Kerri Rawson invites us into her very unique family reunion. Her dad, Dennis Rader, was a charming church leader and Sco…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 5d

The heart of the glade guardian

Every sound around her, the buzz of insects, the distant call of howler monkeys, seemed charged with something older than the jungle itself.

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#Fantasy #Fiction #StrangeAnimals #FictionAnimals #SciFi #ShortStory

The heart of the glade guardian

Daphne Sinclair pressed her palm against the rough bark of a centuries-old oak, her breath shallow, her khaki shirt clinging to her shoulders in the thick Amazon humidity. Every sound around her, t…

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