The Maul was originally printed in limited numbers in Cincinnati, where the Canon Ball Kid was raised. Mauling initially handed out the issues for free, which local businesses loved, as toilet paper was prohibitively expensive back then.
November 10, 2023 at 11:35 AM
The Maul was originally printed in limited numbers in Cincinnati, where the Canon Ball Kid was raised. Mauling initially handed out the issues for free, which local businesses loved, as toilet paper was prohibitively expensive back then.
Mudyard Mauling, founder of the The Maul, was born in 1812 on a small ship in the Atlantic to a deckswap and a cook (who were having an affair). The ship was under attack from the Brits at the time, hence Mauling's nickname, the Canon Ball Kid.
November 9, 2023 at 11:36 AM
Mudyard Mauling, founder of the The Maul, was born in 1812 on a small ship in the Atlantic to a deckswap and a cook (who were having an affair). The ship was under attack from the Brits at the time, hence Mauling's nickname, the Canon Ball Kid.
The Maul's original budget was 7 vacuum tubes. These tubes were donated by Charles Babbage's great uncle who hoped The Maul could find a use for the strange devices. 4 were traded for The Maul's first twenty dollars, and the other three currently sit in The Maul's server room.
November 8, 2023 at 11:26 AM
The Maul's original budget was 7 vacuum tubes. These tubes were donated by Charles Babbage's great uncle who hoped The Maul could find a use for the strange devices. 4 were traded for The Maul's first twenty dollars, and the other three currently sit in The Maul's server room.
The Maul began in 1853 as a small pamphlet handed out to middle-aged women which relayed the horrors of coming down with hysteria and where they could buy pills to prevent the condition.
November 7, 2023 at 11:25 AM
The Maul began in 1853 as a small pamphlet handed out to middle-aged women which relayed the horrors of coming down with hysteria and where they could buy pills to prevent the condition.
The results of our poll indicate that about half of you enjoy daily microfiction, a third don't care, and around a fifth find it off-putting. So we shall continue!
November 6, 2023 at 11:28 AM
The results of our poll indicate that about half of you enjoy daily microfiction, a third don't care, and around a fifth find it off-putting. So we shall continue!
We'll release the results of our poll soon but it appears many of you would like us to continue writing nonsense into your feed holes in some fashion. So look forward to that!
November 3, 2023 at 10:27 AM
We'll release the results of our poll soon but it appears many of you would like us to continue writing nonsense into your feed holes in some fashion. So look forward to that!
We've been making daily content for a minute now. We stopped Unsolicited Horror Tips since it takes up too many words. But we wanna do some kind of microfiction everyday to give your eyeballs some relief from the pain of existence. For now, check out vids on our TikTok and Insta.
November 1, 2023 at 10:43 AM
We've been making daily content for a minute now. We stopped Unsolicited Horror Tips since it takes up too many words. But we wanna do some kind of microfiction everyday to give your eyeballs some relief from the pain of existence. For now, check out vids on our TikTok and Insta.
Unsolicited Horror Tip #0 - Meeting your maker is less stressful than you thought it'd be. You mostly like the same things. It might not be so bad an afterlife after all.
October 31, 2023 at 10:29 AM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #0 - Meeting your maker is less stressful than you thought it'd be. You mostly like the same things. It might not be so bad an afterlife after all.
Unsolicited Horror Tip #1 - You have reached the bottom of the Styx. Its bed is rough and freezing. It is dark, but you can make out shapes moving and shuffling. You have been offered a choice. You can meet your maker, or you can perish and cease to exist. You think...
October 30, 2023 at 10:23 AM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #1 - You have reached the bottom of the Styx. Its bed is rough and freezing. It is dark, but you can make out shapes moving and shuffling. You have been offered a choice. You can meet your maker, or you can perish and cease to exist. You think...
Unsolicited Horror Tip #8 - A childhood memory sticks like glue, just for a moment, but maybe for eternity. You're eight. You look under the pantry. You see a spider. It's legs twitch as it folds its prey. You don't realize what you're seeing at the time. You keep sinking...
October 28, 2023 at 5:51 PM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #8 - A childhood memory sticks like glue, just for a moment, but maybe for eternity. You're eight. You look under the pantry. You see a spider. It's legs twitch as it folds its prey. You don't realize what you're seeing at the time. You keep sinking...
Unsolicited Horror Tip #19 - Your childhood starts to come into focus as you sink into the Styx. You are almost at the bottom. You can see, vividly, the time you stole a Twix from the grocery store when your mom wasn't looking. You keep sinking...
October 27, 2023 at 11:40 AM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #19 - Your childhood starts to come into focus as you sink into the Styx. You are almost at the bottom. You can see, vividly, the time you stole a Twix from the grocery store when your mom wasn't looking. You keep sinking...
Unsolicited Horror Tip #30 - Everything begins to collapse. Your body is compressed. Your eyes shake. You sink deeper into the Styx, pulled along by its current, thrashing against it, until you decide to let the current take you. You relax. And then things really speed up...
October 26, 2023 at 10:19 AM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #30 - Everything begins to collapse. Your body is compressed. Your eyes shake. You sink deeper into the Styx, pulled along by its current, thrashing against it, until you decide to let the current take you. You relax. And then things really speed up...
Unsolicited Horror Tip #39 - The night of your demise sweeps past you in unbridled clarity. Its pains you to see the decisions you made, and what you could have avoided, as the Styx takes you deeper still...
October 25, 2023 at 9:53 AM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #39 - The night of your demise sweeps past you in unbridled clarity. Its pains you to see the decisions you made, and what you could have avoided, as the Styx takes you deeper still...
Unsolicited Horror Tip #40 - The crystallized moment of your death shatters and you begin to fall, slipping through time like sand through a sieve, as your body tingles and becomes numb...
October 24, 2023 at 10:13 AM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #40 - The crystallized moment of your death shatters and you begin to fall, slipping through time like sand through a sieve, as your body tingles and becomes numb...
Unsolicited Horror Tip #41 - The cool taste of the Styx envelopes you, and suddenly you're inside. You can see the moment you died, playing over and over again, the slip, the collision, the trauma to the head. The memory folds in on itself, until becomes one solid crystal...
October 23, 2023 at 9:42 AM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #41 - The cool taste of the Styx envelopes you, and suddenly you're inside. You can see the moment you died, playing over and over again, the slip, the collision, the trauma to the head. The memory folds in on itself, until becomes one solid crystal...
Unsolicited Horror Tip #42 - Charon has asked you to step into the water. It is still, and looks like black glass. It feels cold as your foot hovers over it. Your toes dips, and...
October 22, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #42 - Charon has asked you to step into the water. It is still, and looks like black glass. It feels cold as your foot hovers over it. Your toes dips, and...
Unsolicited Horror Tip #42 - Death has found you. You face Charon, who will ferry you across The Styx. But you only have half the fee. He agrees to take you halfway. It's the best plan you have (to be continued)...
October 21, 2023 at 6:39 PM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #42 - Death has found you. You face Charon, who will ferry you across The Styx. But you only have half the fee. He agrees to take you halfway. It's the best plan you have (to be continued)...
Unsolicited Horror Tip #41 - Driving alone at night can be such a peaceful experience. Until the same song comes back on the radio. And then they play it again, but slower. And then again. And then you realize it's the song that played when you veered off the road that night...
October 18, 2023 at 4:05 PM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #41 - Driving alone at night can be such a peaceful experience. Until the same song comes back on the radio. And then they play it again, but slower. And then again. And then you realize it's the song that played when you veered off the road that night...
Unsolicited Horror Tip #40 - Doors usually lock from the inside, Sharon. You can probably escape the abandoned restaurant you accidentally broke into and are now finding out is haunted. If a ghost has trapped you by forcing the doors shut, we suggest negotiation. But check first.
October 17, 2023 at 3:27 PM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #40 - Doors usually lock from the inside, Sharon. You can probably escape the abandoned restaurant you accidentally broke into and are now finding out is haunted. If a ghost has trapped you by forcing the doors shut, we suggest negotiation. But check first.
Unsolicited Horror Tip #39 - If the principal/dean at your school looks even vaguely like a well-respected but slightly niche comedian, get the hell out of there! You are all going to get your brains eaten or some shit.
October 16, 2023 at 3:51 PM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #39 - If the principal/dean at your school looks even vaguely like a well-respected but slightly niche comedian, get the hell out of there! You are all going to get your brains eaten or some shit.
Unsolicited Horror Tip #38 - The forest is quiet. In fact, no utterances whatsoever. No birdsong, insect chittering, or even the brush of leaves. Perhaps you have left the woods. Oh, you can't grab your pack? Perhaps it is not the forest, but you who are no longer corporeal...
October 15, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #38 - The forest is quiet. In fact, no utterances whatsoever. No birdsong, insect chittering, or even the brush of leaves. Perhaps you have left the woods. Oh, you can't grab your pack? Perhaps it is not the forest, but you who are no longer corporeal...
Unsolicited Horror Tip #37 - Friday the 13th has come and gone but that doesn't mean the killer isn't still out there, biding their time. Murdering you could even become their New Year's Resolution. We advise you make surviving your resolution to counteract this effect.
October 14, 2023 at 3:26 PM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #37 - Friday the 13th has come and gone but that doesn't mean the killer isn't still out there, biding their time. Murdering you could even become their New Year's Resolution. We advise you make surviving your resolution to counteract this effect.
Unsolicited Horror Tip #36 - There is only nothingness as you cross the plane of the goalline. None of your teammates are with you. But you know who is waiting as you keep running. So you keep running. Keep running. Keep running. Keep running. You must keep running.
October 13, 2023 at 11:28 AM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #36 - There is only nothingness as you cross the plane of the goalline. None of your teammates are with you. But you know who is waiting as you keep running. So you keep running. Keep running. Keep running. Keep running. You must keep running.
Unsolicited Horror Tip #35 - The goblin is currently rooting around in your pantry. Negotiating with it and pleading with it have proved fruitless. Our suggestion would be to find a picture of it from its middle school days and threaten to post it on social media until it leaves.
October 12, 2023 at 10:39 AM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #35 - The goblin is currently rooting around in your pantry. Negotiating with it and pleading with it have proved fruitless. Our suggestion would be to find a picture of it from its middle school days and threaten to post it on social media until it leaves.
Unsolicited Horror Tip #34 - Put the tome down. It is cursed. No good can come of it. OK, the cookie recipe slaps, rip that page out. But when the book bleeds, it's on you.
October 11, 2023 at 4:55 PM
Unsolicited Horror Tip #34 - Put the tome down. It is cursed. No good can come of it. OK, the cookie recipe slaps, rip that page out. But when the book bleeds, it's on you.