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Thanos
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Bilingual columnist, cartoonist, writer, painter, born and grew up in a picturesque neighbourhood on the mountainside of Hymettus, Athens. Now well in my sixth decade and plenty grumpy, I live in a scenic village in the Växjö area, Sweden.
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#BookReview The Summons by John Grisham

Ray Atlee’s father left him a fortune, but the instruction manual was suspiciously missing along with a clear conscience.

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#BookReview The Summons by John Grisham
Ray Atlee’s father left him a fortune, but the instruction manual was suspiciously missing along with a clear conscience. John Grisham’s The Summons is less a courtroom thriller and more a slow-bur…
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January 11, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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The unkindness of ravens

The first one they wrote off as a tragedy. A retired schoolteacher, Arne found dead in his immaculate garden, a cup of cold coffee beside him.

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#VäxjöLake #Mystery #Crime #ShortStory #Fiction #Kronoberg #VäxjöThriller
January 11, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Cul-de-sac, Växjö!
122. The fog knows names

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#Växjöcity #VäxjöLake #culdesacväxjö #växjö #vaxjocity #växjömystery #växjöbrott #pensionär #växjöpensionär #mystär #småland #mittvaxjocity
122. The fog knows names
The streets of Växjö were unusually quiet that evening, the dense fog rolling in from the east like a living, breathing entity. It clung to the corners of buildings, coiled around streetlights, and…
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January 11, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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The melted face of doom

The Red Marlin, a brigantine with more patched canvas than honest sailcloth, cut through the waves with a drunken swagger, her hull creaking like old bones.

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The melted face of doom
The moon hung low over the black waters, as if afraid to look too closely at what crawled across the sea. The Red Marlin, a brigantine with more patched canvas than honest sailcloth, cut through th…
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January 11, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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The scent of fear

The dome city of New Thule clung to the edge of a dying glacier like a frozen blister, its reinforced polymer skin holding back the killing cold outside.

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#Dystopia #PostApocalyptic #SciFi #ScienceFiction #IceAgedystopia #ShortStory
Glacial frontier – The scent of fear
The dome city of New Thule clung to the edge of a dying glacier like a frozen blister, its reinforced polymer skin holding back the killing cold outside. Inside, warmth was life. But tonight, that …
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January 11, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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The grievous organ-grinder

The ancient organ of St. Brigitta’s in Högafors did not so much play as it did exhale a series of distinct, wheezing notes.

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#Crime #Life #Mystery #OldWoman #ShortStory #Sleuth #ThanosKalamidas
Wilma’s Wires – The grievous organ-grinder
The ancient organ of St. Brigitta’s in Högafors did not so much play as it did exhale a series of distinct, wheezing notes. To its ageing organist, Mr. Abercrombie, it was a symphony of character. …
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January 11, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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Hunt for the glitch-beast

She had catalogued hoofprints that bent into spirals, feather patterns left in stone by birds that never existed.

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#Fantasy #Fiction #StrangeAnimals #RareAnimals #FictionAnimals #AnimalKingdom #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ShortStory
Hunt for the glitch-beast
Daphne Sinclair had seen many things cross her path during her oddly specific and poorly understood career as a fossographologist, a field she routinely had to explain as “the study of impossible t…
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January 10, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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Of widows and whelks

If another church bell wakes me before the sun itself has bothered to clock in for work, I may commit a historical inaccuracy on purpose just to spite the century.

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#MedievalJournal #MedievalNetizen #fiction #ShortStory
The Medieval vlogger – Of widows and whelks
If another church bell wakes me before the sun itself has bothered to clock in for work, I may commit a historical inaccuracy on purpose just to spite the century. It is* that loud.* I swear the be…
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January 10, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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Phantom bride

The sea-spray of Arkham tasted of salt and forgotten things.

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Pallid Echoes – Phantom bride
The sea-spray of Arkham tasted of salt and forgotten things. It was in this coastal gloom that I, Dr. Alistair Finch, found myself summoned to the estate of Julian Croft. The request was not for a …
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January 10, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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Vinyl Noir Stories –For Your Love by The Yardbirds

The rain wasn’t falling so much as it was bleeding, a slow, steady seep of grime from the bruised sky above Bay City.

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#MusicalJourney #StoriesInspiredbySongs #SongsInspireFiction #Fiction #Rock
Vinyl Noir Stories –For Your Love by The Yardbirds
The rain wasn’t falling so much as it was bleeding, a slow, steady seep of grime from the bruised sky above Bay City. It painted the neon signs in streaks of regret, ‘The Jade Lounge’, ‘Lucky Star …
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January 9, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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Code of death

Detective Mark Sloane didn’t believe in luck. He believed in angles, in timing, and in knowing which way someone was going before they did.

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#BlitzOps #Action #Thriller #Adventure #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #Spy #Crime
January 9, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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The glass knife

Cinderella adjusted the strap of her glass-steel gauntlet, the transparent armour catching the streetlights in sharp, icy flares.

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The glass knife
Megalopolis at night always looked like a spilled jewellery box, shards of neon, glints of chrome, and a whole lot of stuff a girl could cut herself on. Cinderella adjusted the strap of her glass-s…
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January 9, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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Forest bang

Sheriff Step Chaplin leaned against his creaky desk, his thick fingers tapping a slow rhythm on a cup of cold coffee.

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#Crime #Western #OldWest #HistoricalPulp #Mystery #NativeAmerican #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas
Sheriff Step Chaplin – Forest bang
Sheriff Step Chaplin leaned against his creaky desk, his thick fingers tapping a slow rhythm on a cup of cold coffee. The office smelled like old wood, gun oil, and yesterday’s meatloaf—a ble…
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January 9, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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Dragons in the drift

The nebula shimmered like spilled paint across the void, a swirl of violet and emerald, hiding the kind of dangers that got bounties and legends alike.

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#SciFi #justice #ScienceFiction #fiction #VoidJustice #SciFiWestern #ShortStory
Void Justice – Dragons in the drift
The nebula shimmered like spilled paint across the void, a swirl of violet and emerald, hiding the kind of dangers that got bounties and legends alike. Leyton Garrett leaned back in the cockpit of …
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January 9, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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Reflection and deception

Fog rolled over the cobblestones of Victorian London, thick and suffocating, curling through alleys like the fingers of a thousand unseen hands.

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#Fantasy #fiction #ShortStory #Crime #Mystery #VictorianMystery #VictorianFiction
Reflection and deception
Fog rolled over the cobblestones of Victorian London, thick and suffocating, curling through alleys like the fingers of a thousand unseen hands. Gas lamps flickered, their weak light catching on sl…
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January 8, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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Vorgath the hollow maw

The Moonlit City had never known true darkness, for its crystal spires caught the silver glow of the heavens and bent it gently upon the marble streets below.

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#MagicCreatures #Fantasy #MoonlitCity #FantasyStory #Dragon
Vorgath the hollow maw – Dragon
The Moonlit City had never known true darkness, for its crystal spires caught the silver glow of the heavens and bent it gently upon the marble streets below. But that night, the light trembled, qu…
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January 8, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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Williamsburg Wi-Fi wraith

The haunting began not with a cold spot or a disembodied whisper, but with the brassy, soul-shaking blast of a trumpet.

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#Paranormal #Thriller #NewYork #Supernatural #Crime #Ghost #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas
Unliving Justice – Williamsburg Wi-Fi wraith
The haunting began not with a cold spot or a disembodied whisper, but with the brassy, soul-shaking blast of a trumpet. At 4:00:17 AM, in Apartment 3B of a converted brownstone on a tree-lined stre…
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January 8, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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The calculus of hearts and duty

The gilded cage of the Solaris royal palace was, in Princess Ela’s considered opinion, the most exquisitely boring place in the entire kingdom.

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#Fiction #Romance #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas
Jigsaw romance – The calculus of hearts and duty
The gilded cage of the Solaris royal palace was, in Princess Elara’s considered opinion, the most exquisitely boring place in the entire kingdom. Sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling wind…
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January 8, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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#FilmReview – The Last Laugh (1924, Germany)

In a world where a uniform commands more respect than the man inside it, a doorman’s demotion feels like the end of the world until the camera itself decides to get drunk and rewrite reality.

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#FilmReview – The Last Laugh (1924, Germany)
In a world where a uniform commands more respect than the man inside it, a doorman’s demotion feels like the end of the world until the camera itself decides to get drunk and rewrite reality. F.W. …
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January 7, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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Stop for a widow

The Athenian sun hung heavy over the Kaisariani square, a bleached bone in the sky.

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#ShortStory #AthensNoir #GreekNoir #Fiction #Crime #Mystery #Greece #Dictatorship #Noir #Sleuth #GrandmotherSleuth #Kaisariani #NeighbourhoodCrimes
January 7, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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Quorvathi Fractures – I

The Quorvathi worlds had always smelled like trouble. Sulfur in the wind, blood in the soil, and a hint of burnt metal from the Dominion’s machinery left behind.

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Quorvathi Fractures – I
The Quorvathi worlds had always smelled like trouble. Sulfur in the wind, blood in the soil, and a hint of burnt metal from the Dominion’s machinery left behind. I’m old, you see. Old enough to rem…
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January 7, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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First light

Captain Elias Vance leaned back in his chair, the good chair, the one that didn’t make that suspicious squeaking noise when you shifted weight and exhaled

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#AuroraDawn #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Humour #Space #ShortStory #Adventure #SpaceOpera
Aurora Dawn Trails: First light
The Aurora Dawn hung in the void like a particularly smug chandelier, freshly polished, gleaming with that new ship smell (which, incidentally, was 30% industrial cleaner, 20% nano-sealant, and 50%…
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January 7, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Groceries, ghosts, and Gershwin

His cane, Ms. Sumo, and the faint echo of his late wife’s laugh were the only company keeping him upright or at least upright-ish.

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#LifeEchoes #Life #Retirement #ShortStory #Fiction #Drama #ThanosKalamidas
Life echoes – Groceries, ghosts, and Gershwin
Azan Garit balanced three bags of groceries in one hand, a loaf of sourdough under his elbow, and the weight of regrettable ambition in his joints as he trudged up the hill toward his new home in T…
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January 7, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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Wings of the elapsed

Edna Sullivan squinted against the harsh glare of the midday sun as the jagged peaks of Raptor Land rose from the mist like jagged teeth.

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#RaptorTribes #Dinosaurs #Adventure #Action #paleontology #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory
Wings of the elapsed
Edna Sullivan squinted against the harsh glare of the midday sun as the jagged peaks of Raptor Land rose from the mist like jagged teeth. The map in her hand trembled, not from the wind, but from a…
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January 6, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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Beyond Cyran

The Luna Base had been floating in the black for three days without warning, hurling through a yawning corridor of stars that didn’t appear on any map.

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#SciFi #ScienceFiction #PostApocalyptic #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas #Moon #MoonBase
Lunar sift – Beyond Cyran
The Luna Base had been floating in the black for three days without warning, hurling through a yawning corridor of stars that didn’t appear on any map. Commander Aria Vance, tall and sharp-eyed, le…
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January 6, 2026 at 10:50 AM