Ever since this forest refused to let me go, I've been growing with it. By a careful application of my instruments, I set up the ongoing statistical analysis of this ecosystem's generalised behaviour and its tidal pulses. Even under the canopy, there's plenty of sunlight during the day to charge batteries, while the nights are dark enough for my camouflage tent to remain completely concealed. I've managed to hack an autoflowing scriptbot that excites my surroundings through my ring's emitters. It's meant to adapt and optimise for my safety under various circumstances. I believe I depend on it. Sometimes I hear growls in the distance and bioluminescent scampering about.

I keep stumbling into groves opulent with eternally ripening fruits. They make me think deeper and wander longer. I feel better than I ever did in my erstwhile youth. The way I got my days going for me is like a kind of neverending eden. I sometimes spot the birds singing their uplifting melodies... My favourite are the ones with spider-patterned heads and iridescent tail feathers. Their sounds remind me of my father's electric flute. It's almost as if I could hear him again, and I keep marching on through the verdant woods, feeling happy as a lone child on a fantastical quest.

Now, if I could only find my way out of this labyrinth of foliage... I long for human touch and to converse with another intelligent mind. Keeping a physical diary helps, though lately I noticed it writing back to me.

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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@astronomerritt/116002078548382845

Afternoon lads and non-lads, part two of my three-part queer horror/urban fantasy/weird fiction novella is now up! The story summary is in the quoted post, as is the link to the first part.

Part two, for those who read part one, is here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/78787056/chapters/210092721

Comments are extremely welcome. πŸ’›

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Posted the first of three chapters of my weird queer horror story on AO3 (because I haven't built a website for my original fiction yet). Details below.

Title: The Hand That Touches Flame

CWs: possession, body horror, unsure reality, swearing, disturbing imagery

Summary:
Four years ago, Morgan Lee's last remaining alternate self broke through his mirror and tried to kill him. Now, as a vigilante defender of reality with an immortal boss and a mind-reading best friend who could theoretically cause an apocalypse, he's learned to rank threats to his well-being in order of least-to-most dangerous:

3. Eldritch extraplanar entities from hostile realities bent on invading his own, and the cultists who serve them.
2. The British government.
1. Himself. Specifically: the excruciating embarrassment of having a crush on said mind-reading best friend.

Saving teenage girls from the demons they summoned via Tumblr is easy, after all. It's everything else that's hard.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/78787056

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Sometimes you publish a story to your site, and then just forget to tell anyone about it for... a month?

Anyways, a bit of a stranger piece for yours truly. Lemme know what you think. ~10m read

"That spring, the wind ceased to speak.

"It was not an easy tongue. Stand in copses of young trees, sway to match their branches. Wait on sea bluffs, watch the patterns of waves and spray, let the drum of blown sand sting your skin...

"Windspeakers, even then, do not hear its words. But welcome them from the cold, warm their cold cheeks, wet their chapped lips, and often they speak.

"And what they speak is always true."

https://nebulos.space/windspeaker.html

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The Windspeaker

Are you one of those people who say "I'd rather read your crappy original writing than something generated by AI?" Now's the time to put your money where your mouth is!

I, without any previous experience, wrote 100 different short stories, around 1,000 words each, for a total of over 105,000 words! Find them on my #blog, or don't; it's a free country!

http://maxalmonte.com/blog/i-wrote-fiction-for-100-days-straight-and-heres-what-happened/

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I Wrote One Short Story For 100 Days Straight And Here's What Happened

Another corner of the good ol' internet, another guy with opinions, another collection of 3AM thoughts dumped into HTML pages as if it were a good replacement for pen and paper.

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