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Thanos
@thanoska.bsky.social
Bilingual columnist, cartoonist, writer, painter, born and grew up in a picturesque neighbourhood on the mountainside of Hymettus, Athens. Now well in my sixth decade and plenty grumpy, I live in a scenic village in the Växjö area, Sweden.
Court of Shadows

Nic Seville leaned back in his leather chair, cigarette smouldering in the ashtray despite the courthouse’s “strictly no smoking” signs.

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#fiction #crime #lawyer #law #prisonlaw #excon #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory
Last Appeal – Court of Shadows
Nic Seville leaned back in his leather chair, cigarette smouldering in the ashtray despite the courthouse’s “strictly no smoking” signs. “They don’t mean me,” he muttered, as Sally Chen, all brisk …
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February 9, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Blood tells truths

The call came at 3:17 a.m. That was how my father would’ve liked it, ugly timing, no warning, no room to soften the blow.

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#BlitzOps #Action #Thriller #Adventure #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #Spy #Crime
February 8, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Ghastly glow in Garderobe

A faint, unwholesome, pulsating green emanation from the direction of the public conveniences.

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#Fiction #Fika #Funny #Humour #Sweden #ShortStory #FunnyVignette #ThanosKalamidas
Fika Fiasco – Ghastly glow in Garderobe
The peace of the little hamlet of Ditchling-on-the-Wold, a settlement so bucolic that the sheep occasionally composed pastoral poetry, was shattered not by a sound, but by a light. A faint, unwhole…
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February 8, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Labyrinths of vanity

London, like a great lung, breathed out fog that evening, coal-smoke and secrets mingled until even the gaslamps seemed to cough.

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#Fantasy #fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #Crime #Mystery #VictorianMystery #LondonCrime
Labyrinths of vanity
London, like a great lung, breathed out fog that evening, coal-smoke and secrets mingled until even the gaslamps seemed to cough. Beneath their jaundiced glow, Uriah Eep slid along the pavement as …
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February 7, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Elindra Starwing

Silver lanterns swayed in the windless air above Moonlit City, as though stirred by the murmurs of ancient spirits.

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#MagicCreatures #Fantasy #MoonlitCity #FantasyStory #WhispersofMoonlitCity #ThanosKalamidas #Griffin
Elindra Starwing – Griffin
Silver lanterns swayed in the windless air above Moonlit City, as though stirred by the murmurs of ancient spirits. The towers, carved from pale stone that shimmered like starlight caught in marble…
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February 7, 2026 at 9:48 AM
The rust-fury of Grithdottir

The wind that swept across the Ashen Fells was a gritty, metallic thing, tasting of rust and old blood.

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#Fiction #Viking #ShieldMaiden #Action #DarkAges #Medieval #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas
Shieldmaiden Howl – The rust-fury of Grithdottir
The wind that swept across the Ashen Fells was a gritty, metallic thing, tasting of rust and old blood. It was a land scraped raw, a far cry from the green fjords and timbered halls of Geidis’s mem…
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February 7, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Last call for integrity

It was raining gin that night. Not water, gin. Burned the soul if you had any left. Me, I ran out years ago.

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#Crime #Detective #Mystery #Noir #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas
Narration Noire – Last call for integrity
It was raining gin that night. Not water, gin. Burned the soul if you had any left. Me, I ran out years ago. I was sitting at a booth in a dive called The Black Wishbone, nursing a bourbon like it …
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February 7, 2026 at 9:45 AM
#FilmReview – 12 Angry Men (1957)

Twelve men walk into a room and the real crime is some of their haircuts.

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#FilmReview – 12 Angry Men (1957)
Twelve men walk into a room and the real crime is some of their haircuts. Let’s set the scene: New York, sweltering summer, a cramped jury room. Twelve men are tasked with deciding the fate of a te…
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February 6, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Kolonaki silence

The news of the robbery in Kolonaki spread through Kaisariani like smoke from a cheap grill, everyone got a whiff, and it left a bitter taste.

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#ShortStory #AthensNoir #Fiction #Crime #Mystery #Greece #Noir #Sleuth #GrandmotherSleuth
February 6, 2026 at 9:29 AM
An evolutionary analysis of the Myrthosi

The Myrthosi are a tall, thin, pale-blue humanoid species originating from the planet Zyphora-7, a world dominated by extreme thermal dichotomy.

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#ScienceFiction #SciFi #FictionAlientology #FictionGalaxy #FictionPlanet
An evolutionary analysis of the Myrthosi
The Myrthosi are a tall, thin, pale-blue humanoid species originating from the planet Zyphora-7, a world dominated by extreme thermal dichotomy. Only a narrow habitable ring, approximately 450 km w…
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February 6, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Blood and sand in the shadows

The roar of the crowd still echoed through the stone arches of the Colosseum long after the spectacle had ended.

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#fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #HistoricalFiction #Crime #Mystery #Rome #EmperorAugustus #AncientRome
Subura secrets – Blood and sand in the shadows
The roar of the crowd still echoed through the stone arches of the Colosseum long after the spectacle had ended. Aeneas Cassius Pollux, ex-slave turned investigator, stood in the shadow of the west…
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February 6, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Frog’s ransom

“Sheriff,” she squeaked, voice like a fiddle string plucked sharp, “we’ve got trouble worse than a rattler at a wedding.”

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#Fantasy #Fairyland #OldWest #Western #fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #Elf
Mistfell fairytown – Frog’s ransom
Mistfell’s sheriff’s office squatted at the end of Dustwing Street, boards gray as old bone; a horseshoe nailed upside-down over the door because Sheriff Mal Krisqen said it “kept luck from leaking…
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February 6, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Echoes of the crest

The dense fog clung to the jungle like a living thing, weaving between the towering ferns and twisted vines.

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#RaptorTribes #Dinosaurs #Adventure #Action #paleontology #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory
Echoes of the crest
The dense fog clung to the jungle like a living thing, weaving between the towering ferns and twisted vines. Edna Sullivan adjusted the straps of her field pack and squinted through the mist, her e…
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February 5, 2026 at 9:06 AM
For MAGA loyalists and evangelical women who have long perfected the art of reconciling piety with power, it is a must-see not despite its flaws but because of them.

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#MelaniaFilm
The icy mirror
The curious thing about the Melania film, curious in the way a bruise is curious when pressed, is not whether it succeeds artistically or even ethically but that it doesn’t need to.
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February 4, 2026 at 11:15 AM
#BookReview Jack & Jill by James Patterson

If you thought sibling rivalry was tough, try sharing a psychopath.

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#BookReview Jack & Jill by James Patterson
If you thought sibling rivalry was tough, try sharing a psychopath. James Patterson’s Jack & Jill is like a literary rollercoaster built by a mad engineer who only read the manual for the “go f…
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February 4, 2026 at 8:49 AM
February 4, 2026 at 8:48 AM