Billy (aka Bilbo Waggins) has a smile to spare. Best wishes to you and your family.

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 😊

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” 😁

Thanks so much, Emmi! 🖤🖤

This was great!
I love the art, too 😁
Thanks CB
🖤💀💛

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:

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Hurray! 😊😊 Thanks so much, Maria!

“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/)

“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
✨🐙🎩

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(Feel free to DM if you’d like a review copy of my story!)

“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?

💃🔥🖤
😈🔪☀️

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“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.

🖤💀💛

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“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

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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), 🚲🇺🇸🚲

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Same ☺️☺️