Short Story of the Month

New Ages, New Ways

“What now, Doctor?”
There were no signs of hysteria in Berg’s voice. He learned how to keep calm a long time ago. It was just a simple statement from a scientist, who is facing a problem.
Unsolvable and dangerous problem.
Dangerous and unsolvable?
There were two of them, a physician, and a physicist, in a small entrance hallway of a flat that Dr. Kraus inherited from his aunt. And something was banging on the door...

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Being of the Month

Werewolf

Writing anything about werewolves is a bit of a challenge. You don't think so? On the one hand, one compound-complex sentence would be enough, on the other hand, a hundred-page paper wouldn't fix it. I don't want to do the former, I am not capable of the latter. But I'll do something: I'll take you to – let's call it the staircase of werewolf initiation. From that one sentence to the limit of the aforementioned study.
Enough talk, here we go.

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Other Stuff

Sherlockiana: Police Officers

Even though Holmes became the patron of all literary detectives that came after him, he didn't consider himself as one. He thought of himself as a higher form of a sleuth.

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Quote of the Month

I had but that moment declared I would not leave the house, and already I was a stranger in the strange land!

— George MacDonald. Lilith

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How to Properly Feed a Demon

How to Properly Feed a Demon

Twenty-five short short stories for short short breaks. Starring aliens and people, gods as well as demons.

 

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Didaktylos*
* Terry Pratchett. Hogfather

 

Welcome to my world. For the longest time I couldn’t think of right name for this place, so I left it without one. Amongst things you can find here are attempts of science fiction and fantasy stories, my collection of gods, bogeymen and monsters and also articles about things that had me interested, be it for a while or for years. (There is more of this, sadly not in English but in Czech, on www.fext.cz)

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