Can something created to inflict horror change?
In the first part of this new short story, the answer is yes.
But there are challenges to shifting careers, and the spark that kicks it off can be quite intense.
Five humans went up into space for a secret mission. The mission has failed. Now, the only thing to do is send out messages and hope someone hears them.
Honestly, this is one of the most complicated stand-alone stories we’ve ever featured on Friday Fiction. It’s set in the future, with some comedy layered in, and then is also an apocalyptic horror story.
Welcome back for Part 3. The final part. The conclusion.
In it, our narrator will find the Hidden Gnasher—but it won’t be how you maybe expected.
Not every monster is a scary, massive thing, as this story proves.
In our second installment of “Hiding In Plain Sight,” our protagonist is now trapped in a room with something so small that he can’t be sure where it is, but it’s quite capable of hurting him.
Some worlds have monsters. This is one of them—but they’d done a very good job of containing them. They are objects of study, as much as horrible dangers.
When they get out, though, they are only one of those things.
We’ve done a lot of high-concept stories on Friday Fiction. Ones where the technology or magic is very obvious, and part of the story in big ways.
But not every fantasy story has to have such flashy moments. Sometimes, it’s nice to settle into a more personal, quieter tale.
Possibly, this is the furthest in the future we’ve ever done for a Friday Fiction. The technology in “The Many Spaceships Of The Biggest City” seems possible, eventually, but it could be hundreds, if not thousands, of years before it would be on this level.
Just because we said the next story—this week’s story—would be even weirder than our last, doesn’t mean that it’s going to also be a funny story.
Because this is not. “Ceiling Men’s Managers” is very much not.
What would you do if a grasshopper came to your door?
That’s the absurd question at the heart of this surreal short story from Brandon Scott.
You got to take the day as it comes, right?
Well, at least that’s the perspective of our MC. It’s a normal day for them—but quite the strange one for us. Because they’ve got the most unusual superpower.
Is there a more classic spooky horror scenario than hiding from something or someone who’s looking for you?
