HeyJaredPatrick Parker's Myth Engine
Southern gothic, weird horror, hard-edged fiction about broken people, bad choices, and things that won’t stay buried.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 13
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Aug 21, 2026
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Freddy? (opens the original)
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Edna & Gaspar (opens the original)
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The Swamp Thing Walks at Night (opens the original)
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My Dinner with Jeff Goldblum (opens the original)
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Cast Iron (opens the original)
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Deputy Collins found Geneva McRae sitting on the kitchen steps in her nightgown smoking a cigarette when he arrived.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1536" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5win!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:st
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