Fiction allows reality to be reshaped—distorted, intensified, or stripped back to its essentials. These posts explore storytelling in its crafted form, where characters, conflict, and perspective combine to reveal truths that aren’t always accessible through fact alone.
People write fiction for various reasons, often overlapping: an urge to tell stories, provide escapism, self-exploration, and emotional healing. It allows for reshaping reality, navigating chaos, and creativity. Ultimately, writers feel a compulsion to express something within them, culminating in a private act that resonates publicly with readers.
Tony and Mitchell arrange to meet at Captain Burke Park. Tony is anxious—haunted by the news of a woman’s body found in the bay. He suspects Mitchell, but needs confirmation. At the park, life moves peacefully—joggers pass, families play. Mitchell arrives with hot chips, casual, amused. His remarks are sharp, mocking, disturbingly playful. He toys
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Using the alias Cyrus, Mitchell meets Jane beneath a violent night sky. Their photography expedition conceals deception, flirtation and darker intentions. As lightning exposes the beach in stark flashes, Jane believes she has found adventure. Mitchell is hunting something else—and the approaching storm will hide what follows from everyone.
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Mitchell sails confidently through familiar waters, sharing sea tales and narrow escapes with Peter. His control of the yacht mirrors the one place he feels certain—out here, among the tides, currents, and markers of a world that obeys rules. Peter’s casual question about children strikes a chord. There will be no children, Mitchell says. Samantha
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Aboard Surly Mermaid, Mitchell explains how isolation at sea shifts power towards the skipper. He recalls misleading a woman about an overnight voyage, watching her confidence disappear with the shoreline. No violence was necessary. Distance created dependency, and denying the intimacy she expected became Mitchell’s most satisfying act of control.
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Mitchell wasn’t expecting visitors. Yet a knock interrupted his solitude. At the door stood a young woman in a red coat—blonde hair, bright eyes, hauntingly familiar. It was Nina. No—couldn’t be. Nina was dead. But the voice, the smirk… it was her daughter. Natasha. She introduced herself politely, excited, fidgeting with a note in her
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Mitchell hides a folder of haunting photographs from Sam while performing the role of a dependable husband. After rejecting her touch, he secretly returns to an audio feed from another woman’s apartment. An unfamiliar male voice breaks the domestic routine, sharpening Mitchell’s senses and awakening his appetite for the hunt.
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Two decades after its initial draft, SEETHINGS has undergone a profound transformation. This darker, sharper version enhances its psychological depth, exploring themes of obsession and madness. With tightened prose and heightened tension, it redefines the neo-noir genre, inviting both new readers and returning fans to experience its unsettling narrative. It’s currently free on Smashwords.
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Where should a story’s climax occur? This guide explains why the seventy-five-percent mark is usually a turning point rather than the climax, how midpoint reversals and slow-burn endings function, and why timing alone is insufficient. A successful climax must feel earned, resolve the central conflict and leave space for consequences.
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Mitchell follows a trail of memories through Logan City, convincing himself that fate is guiding him back to Nina. An old school, a familiar song and years of marital rejection turn temptation into destiny. He could still return home to Sam, but the light changes, and Mitchell continues driving forward.
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