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Brandon Case
@brandoncase101.bsky.social
Author ✍️ & Photographer 📸
Fiction in Escape Pod, Flash Fiction Online, Small Wonders, Factor Four, Third Flatiron, and others. Member of SFWA, Codex, and the Fireside Quills.
www.brandoncase.net
Billy (aka Bilbo Waggins) has a smile to spare. Best wishes to you and your family.
September 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Thanks, Manda! I had tons of fun layering into the format, with time running two directions as she scribbles back up the form, emphasizing certain words as her ink runs out 🖤✍️

I enjoyed your story too! So sweet—I had a rush of goosebumps when the woman regressed to childhood and hugged her father 😊
May 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Yaay! Thanks Sierra 🖤🕷️🖤
I super appreciate you being a calm language-tech-support agent when I’d message all of a dither like “OMG does this (intentionally!) weird and unbalanced sentence still make sense I’ve read it 500 times and don’t know what words are anymore” 😁
May 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Thanks so much, Emmi! 🖤🖤
May 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM
This was great!
I love the art, too 😁
Thanks CB
🖤💀💛
May 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Reposted by Brandon Case
This merman loves bicycles and we're not going to judge him for that. "A Love of Bicycles in the Violent Now" by @brandoncase101.bsky.social:

smallwondersmag.com/piece/a-love...

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A Love of Bicycles in the Violent Now - Small Wonders
My kind hates humans for turning our fossilized ancestors into pollution and making our deep-ocean homes uninhabitable. But depleted oil reserves brought this resurgence of bicycles, which I love!
smallwondersmag.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Hurray! 😊😊 Thanks so much, Maria!
February 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“Test of Reforming Angels”

Xanax Hamster Vol 2

Steal a bread
feed your child for a day
Defy the nuns
have your virginity restored

(horror, 1200 words)

Forthcoming in December!

(For my other 2024 stories including micros, please visit brandoncase.net/writing/)
December 20, 2024 at 6:54 PM
“The Clockwork Octopus and a Letter to Queen Victoria”

Dragon Gems Winter Anthology
Water Dragon Press
(steampunk, 3300 words)

A tale of misfits in Elizabethan England and features perhaps THE cutest brass octopus
✨🐙🎩

amzn.to/3Smeevl

(Feel free to DM if you’d like a review copy of my story!)
Dragon Gems: Winter 2024
Dragon Gems: Winter 2024 [Water Dragon Publishing] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dragon Gems: Winter 2024
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December 20, 2024 at 6:54 PM
“Saturdays of Night”

Factor Four
(contemporary fantasy, 1000 words, 2024)

With the world overrun by raucous demons, how long can two dimension-crossed lovers survive humanity’s brutal response?

💃🔥🖤
😈🔪☀️

factorfourmag.com/saturdays-of...
Saturdays of Night by Brandon Case
One year ago, Halloween’s annual resurrection fell on a Saturday, and the dawn sun disappeared like the closing of God’s eye. The sky blackened, leaving a fiery corona, a devil’s crown …
factorfourmag.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:54 PM
“The Book of Tar”

Factor Four
(contemporary fantasy, 1000 words)

For a young cancer patient, medical necromancy might provide a second chance… if he can perform the ritual without losing himself and his family.

🖤💀💛

factorfourmag.com/the-book-of-...
The Book of Tar by Brandon Case
The hospital bed cradles my body like some pharaoh on display at The Honolulu Academy of Arts. My fingers tremble as I adjust midnight-blue candles. On an aluminum tray that’s bent where Cousin Kev…
factorfourmag.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:54 PM
“Darkness, Blanket of My Eyes”

Flash Fiction Online

Apocalypse and panic,
His partner left him in a gas station to get help
Weeks ago.
Now that promise and blindfold, tied by his love, are all that remains of humanity 🖤👺

“Oof” -Charles Payseur, Locus

www.flashfictiononline.com/article/dark...
Darkness, Blanket of My Eyes
Darkness my blanket, tied close by the one I love.Beyond my blindfold, outside this abandoned Chevron station, I hear movement.Gasping, slapping, moist flesh—fwap, fwap—a squeal. Silence.Neighborho…
www.flashfictiononline.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:54 PM
A Love of Bicycles in the Violent Now

Small Wonders
(dark fantasy, 1000 words)

Merfolk 🧜‍♂️
Body horror 😱
Dark (dark) humor 🖤

+Content Warnings: bigotry, tentacle genitals (nonsexual), 🚲🇺🇸🚲

smallwondersmag.com/piece/a-love...
A Love of Bicycles in the Violent Now - Small Wonders
My kind hates humans for turning our fossilized ancestors into pollution and making our deep-ocean homes uninhabitable. But depleted oil reserves brought this resurgence of bicycles, which I love!
smallwondersmag.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Same ☺️☺️
November 22, 2024 at 2:51 AM