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Caged
“Tonight only! Come see The Creature of Telluride!”
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Swallows
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Apple Snake
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Sentences
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This is not fiction
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Horror

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Icky Things
The blood of the lamb-dog.
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Caged
“Tonight only! Come see The Creature of Telluride!”
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Footprints in the snow
Based off a prompt by Chuck Palahniuk
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Welcome to Automatic Writer, a gothic den for lovers of horror, dark westerns, and speculative fiction. Dive into a curated collection of eerie tales and exclusive content that ventures into the shadows of the wild frontier and beyond.

Westerns (Dark/Horror)

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Apple Snake
I played the song my mother played. And just like my mother, I didn’t stop for death.
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The Fox and the Snipe
“I seen your horse run off. You hurt?”
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The Hanging of Lester Bragg
God’s pendulum.
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A Preacher in New England
100 words.
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Speculative

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Where babies come from
The Orange-Beaked Thieves
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Swallows
A drabble.
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Switchers
click, clack, click, clack
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The Birthday Suit
When your father told you that he would never leave you, did you think that he was being literal?
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Serials

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Doomsday Snooze Button (IIII)
Escape route
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Doomsday Snooze Button (III)
I really gotta go!
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Doomsday Snooze Button (II)
Pull it together, Steve.
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Picking the best-written books
Strange New Worlds
Strange New Worlds
John Coon

Paper | Thin

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Paper | Thin
12/04/99
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A serial
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Paper | Thin
12/03/99
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Literary Fiction

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DNF
She brought me to her parents, but I never left the dark.
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Sentences
Occasionally, I think about setting it all on fire.
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The Writer's Prayer
On consistency and inspiration
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The essence of God
Call me Armadillidium vulgare...
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Poems

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Heartbeats: Don't act surprised
Lyrics as poetry
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Heartbeats: Dead Wrens
Lyrics as poetry
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Heartbeats: Limited Possibilities
Lyrics as poetry
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Ten Minutes
A poem.
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