Carl Simmons

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2026-06-07 21:27:01 -

The Shadow Beneath the Oak
The heat in Mississippi did not merely sit upon you—it pressed, heavy as a hand, suffocating as a shroud. Roger Connolly knew this heat better than any man alive. He had grown up in it, breathed it, learned to move through it like a fish moves through water. Now at forty-two, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Jackson, and the last descendant of a family that had once owned...

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2026-06-09 01:50:00 -

The Black Coat Physician
It rained upon London that evening with the particular malice only a capital city can muster — not the clean, theatrical downpour of the provinces, but a grudging, persistent drizzle that seeped into bone and bred despair. Dr. Edward Harrington arrived at Ashworth Manor with his boots thoroughly defeated, his left cuff stained with the kind of ink no gentleman would care to display, and a...

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2026-06-05 04:01:52 -

The rain had not ceased for three days when the seven heirs of the Wintworth fortune gathered at Blackmoor House.
Edgar Winterworth was seventy-eight years old and had served as the family's ledger-keeper for fifty-two years. His hands, thin as parchment, trembled slightly as he opened the great oak ledger that had been passed down through four generations. The candlelight flickered across the pages, illuminating entries written in three different hands over three centuries of accumulated wealth and...

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2026-06-05 07:44:03 -

The quiet rain
The rain was falling on the hardware store the way rain falls on hardware stores all over the Midwest—not dramatically, not with the kind of intensity that makes you run for cover, but steadily, persistently, the kind of rain that soaks through your coat without you noticing until you are already wet. James Kellerman was behind the counter, counting inventory. Nails. Screws. Washers. The kind...

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2026-06-03 06:08:16 -

Sample-V06: The Memory Tax
Leo lived his life in the intervals between spreadsheets and espresso shots. In the glass canyons of Lower Manhattan, he was a ghost in a slim-fit suit, an analyst whose only superpower was the ability to disappear into the background of a boardroom. He was fragile, prone to panic attacks, and haunted by a chronic fatigue that made the walk from the subway feel like a marathon. Then he found...

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2026-06-03 07:25:11 -

The Anvil of Pi
Act One: The Discovery The rain in Derbyshire had a way of getting into your bones that no wool sweater could keep out. Thomas Whitmore knew this better than most. At fifty-two, his joints ached with the damp, and the doctor had suggested London. London, where the fog was so thick you could spread it on bread. But Thomas had refused. There was work to be done here, in the dales, in the old铅...

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2026-06-03 19:27:27 -

The Order of the Plague
The year was 1348, and Europe was a landscape of ash and agony. The Black Death had turned the great cities into charnel houses, and the social order of the world had collapsed into a fever dream of panic and superstition. In the small town of Avignon, the church preached that the plague was a divine punishment, and the only cure was flagellation and prayer. Dr. Thomas Moreaux was a man of a...

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2026-06-09 23:19:26 -

The Patient from Below
ACT I: THE LISTENING The sanatorium sat on the edge of Whitechapel, where the fog never fully lifted and the gas lamps cast yellow circles on cobblestones that were perpetually damp. Julian Ashworth had been sent here by his physician after his "episode" at twenty-five—a nervous breakdown, the doctor called it, though Julian suspected the word "nervous" was a euphemism for something the doctor...

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2026-06-04 02:19:59 -

The Twin Mirror on Riverside Drive
The Twin Mirror on Riverside DriveThe first time I lost time, I was in the operating room at Riverside Veterinary, holding a scalpel over a golden retriever named Cooper who had swallowed a sock, and then I was standing in the hallway twenty minutes later, the scalpel still in my hand, Cooper's abdomen sutured shut, and no memory of doing any of it.I dropped the scalpel. It clattered on the...

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2026-06-01 02:42:35 -

The Southern Stars
The stone was colder than anything had a right to be. Missy Faulkner found it in the abandoned mining shaft behind the Faulkner plantation, buried beneath three feet of collapsed earth and rotting timber. It was no larger than a grapefruit, perfectly smooth, perfectly black, and so heavy that she could barely lift it with both hands. She sat on the ground in the dim light of the shaft and...

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2026-06-03 00:56:46 -

Seven Degrees of Salt
The first compromise was so small that Cora almost missed it. She had been reading through her uncle Jules's journal for three hours by then, the pages swollen with humidity and the ink bleeding at the edges, and she had almost skipped the entry from April 2012 — a brief, unremarkable paragraph about a phone call Jules had received from John on a Tuesday afternoon. *John called about the...

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2026-06-01 04:33:02 -

Variant 009: The Algorithm of Solitude (Enlightenment Satire)
The Academy of Rationality was the proudest achievement of the Age of Reason. Its goal was simple: to map every human emotion to a mathematical coordinate and thus eliminate the 'inefficiency' of passion. Professor Alistair Finch was the Academy's most devoted disciple. He had successfully mapped 'Love' to a series of quadratic equations and 'Grief' to a logarithmic decay curve. He lived his...

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