A Curated Selection of Amusing Miscellany
Author Page: Adam Bassett
A short, compelling read about the ever-enduring quality of humanity to sow needless conflict among itself in the face of more practical concerns, like surviving against the indiscriminate and ravenous darkness that surrounds all.
Smoothly delivered and speckled with little details like the lost, true night of older eras.
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Author Page: Emory Glass
A cozy dark fantasy to pair with a mug of mulled cider.
Two roads diverged in a blooded wood, yet Her heart-burl lain cross both.
An uncommon, intimate look at fantasy: to see not the forest nor even a lone tree, but the ongoings of a solitary, seasoned branch. A delightful weave of writing that steadfastly veils the outside until hollowed interior is permitted to endure no longer.
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Author Page: Adam Bassett
Beautifully occupies the seemingly unexplored and passed over space that lies between our increasingly dystopian present and the shining grittiness of a cyberpunk future. Every story stands on their lonesome ,and yet, are clearly integrated into a greater gestalt of shared humanity more than any installed chrome.
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“The Beast of Longyearbyen” is a personal favorite.
So much of a favorite that I had mind to composite a song for it. As Gévaudan, so Longyearbyen.
Beast of Longyearbyen
(Adapted from and to the cadence of the rousing “Beast of Gévaudan” by Powerwolf)
Beast of Longyearbyen, feared no mod and feared no gun
Roused from ocean depths, abyssal creature
Beast of Longyearbyen, for nature’s wrath to come
Came to sanction the mass and the poachers
Hunted by hundreds, and never to be caught
Ascent to hunger, strike horror, and take ’em all below
To the Corpo on the run, came the Beast of Longyearbyen
Dominator, a hunter, half myth and half nova
To the sailor come undone, came the Beast of Longyearbyen
Asserter, a warder, all lethal, lithe and lean
Beast of Longyearbyen
Beast of Longyearbyen, farmed salmon will succumb
Meant to feast on the greed of exploiters
Beast of Longyearbyen, upwell Tiamat rerun
Tear the mass off deepening coastlines
Hunted by hundreds, all tempted to be sought
Spear through like riptide, remind of primal fears
To the Corpo on the run, came the Beast of Longyearbyen
Dominator, a hunter, half myth and half nova
To the sailor come undone, came the Beast of Longyearbyen
Asserter, a warder, all lethal, lithe and lean
Beast of Longyearbyen
In the depths no man can gun down the Beast of Longyearbyen
No escape from the fate of a denier sunk in hubris
When all accounts paid and done, tame the seas of Longyearbyen
And the haunt of the beast will remain
To the Corpo on the run, came the Beast of Longyearbyen
Dominator, a hunter, half myth and half nova
To the sailor come undone, came the Beast of Longyearbyen
Asserter, a warder, all lethal, lithe and lean
Beast of Longyearbyen
