HeyJaredGhost Zombie Playground
Fiction from the edge of the veil—equal parts haunting and humor. For readers who like their monsters messy, their magic unstable, and their feelings inconvenient.
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Deft Slashes (opens the original)
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Marcus sat behind the anchor desk, copy and a red pen in hand. Deft slashes carved away crime statistics, polling numbers, public service warnings. Only he knew what they wanted to hear.“Thirty seconds,” the floor director called.He pulled the silver flask from his jacket pocket. A gift from the network after his second Emmy. He unscrewed the cap with practiced fingers, and drank. The metal was warm from his body heat.“Ten. Nine. Eight.”The warmth crept down his throat, filled his chest.“Three.
The World’s Worst Goblin (DRAFT) (opens the original)
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PAGE 1Grim Grum was the world’s worst goblin.Every goblin said so.---PAGES 2 to 3He was not mean or rude or even a little bit smelly.He liked sunshine and flowers and animals. But what he loved most of all was reading.---PAGES 4 to 5His favorite stories were about knights.He loved their shiny helmets and that they rode horses. He loved that they had a code called chivalry, which is just a fancy word for the rules about being good.But most of all, he loved that everyone was happy to see them.---P
Deposit Forfeit (opens the original)
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Court Jester (opens the original)
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All rise. The Verified Judge Snopes presiding.Docket #5673: The Truth vs. Arlen Vox.“Arlen Vox, you stand accused of deception in the form of buffoonery resulting in laughter. The penalty for this crime is death by electrocution. It says here, you intend to represent yourself?”“That is correct, your Verifiedness.” Arlen was a slight man with unruly brown hair and matching brown suit, oversized. His yellow shirt and green tie made him look like a hotdog.“How do you plead?R
Eight Drabbles (opens the original)
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Magic CirclesJacob swept, then dropped to his hands and knees to eye the floorboards. He spotted a sliver of debris caught in a seam. He picked it out with his thumbnail, and looked again. Satisfied, he dragged thirteen battered chairs from storage and set them out in a circle. Next, he was on the ground again with chalk. He drew a circle around the chairs, then another. Glyphs filled the space between. Jacob stepped over the threshold of the protective circle. The hum of ambient magical energy
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