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Thanos
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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.
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Cul-de-sac, Växjö!
126. The Man in the Fog

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126. The Man in the Fog
Just as I was about to speak, a faint sound interrupted me, a soft crunch of gravel underfoot. My heart skipped a beat, the sound unnaturally loud in the stillness of the night. Lukas tensed beside…
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February 9, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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Ticked off, wound tight

If you’re reading this, either I survived the night or I didn’t bother to delete my notes.

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Ticked off, wound tight
If you’re reading this, either I survived the night or I didn’t bother to delete my notes. Both possibilities feel equally plausible. By day, I’m Dr. Yoofi Akerman, clinic psychologist, specialist …
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February 9, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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The petrified walker

Daphne Sinclair wiped the sweat from her brow, peering through the dense foliage of the Amazon basin.

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#Fantasy #Fiction #StrangeAnimals #RareAnimals #FictionAnimals #AnimalKingdom #ThanosKalamidas #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ShortStory
The petrified walker
Daphne Sinclair wiped the sweat from her brow, peering through the dense foliage of the Amazon basin. She crouched low, boots sinking slightly into the damp undergrowth, while a swarm of mosquitoes…
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February 9, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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Machina Crosses the cosmic horizon

Something banged outside the hull, like bone against steel.

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Machina Adrift – Machina Crosses the cosmic horizon
Or how it all started “This is not standard protocol.”Captain ARGOS-7’s metallic voice echoed through the fractured command bridge of the MNS Vigilant Prospector, barely audible over the rattling b…
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February 9, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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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
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Vinyl Noir Stories – How Deep Is the Ocean? By Irving Berlin

The office smelled of stale cigar smoke and yesterday’s regrets.

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#MusicalJourney #StoriesInspiredbySongs #SongsInspireFiction #ShortStory #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas
Vinyl Noir Stories – How Deep Is the Ocean? By Irving Berlin
The office smelled of stale cigar smoke and yesterday’s regrets. I was tilted back in my chair, my feet on the desk, watching a lazy spiral of dust dance in the knife-blade of sunlight cutting thro…
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February 8, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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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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February 8, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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The case of the Splintered City

Beside him marched Jiminy Cricket, tiny briefcase in tow, antennae bouncing.

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The case of the Splintered City
Megalopolis never slept. It twitched, it shuddered, it murmured in its sleep like something dreaming of teeth. Which, frankly, made Pinocchio feel right at home. He adjusted his tie, navy blue, pat…
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February 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Icefire

The ice cracked like a gunshot under the weight of Europa’s shifting crust.

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#ScienceFiction #SciFi #Postapocalyptic #Dystopia #fiction #ThanosKalamidas #Space #Europa #spaceColony #Jupiter
Europa’s Children – Icefire
The ice cracked like a gunshot under the weight of Europa’s shifting crust. The colonists had long ago stopped flinching at the sound; if the moon wanted to split open and swallow them whole, they’…
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February 8, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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#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
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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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February 6, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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The swing-set

It was the memory of a creak, a ghost of a sound, worn thin and sharp by repetition.

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Ethereal testimony – The swing-set
The chains of the old swing did not creak. Not really. The sound that echoed through the empty playground of Bracknell Park, long after the streetlights had flickered on and the sensible parents ha…
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February 5, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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The greedy

The first sign was the weeping in the walls.

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Hood of Vengeance – The greedy
The first sign was the weeping in the walls. Not rats or settling pipes, but a genuine, soul-chilling feminine sob that started each night at precisely 3:17 AM. The second was the cold spot on the …
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February 5, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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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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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
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#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
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The melody of malice

The music box sat in its glass case like a slumbering heart.

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February 4, 2026 at 8:48 AM