Joshua Chase

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2026-06-04 19:48:57 -

The Flower That Blooms Without Asking
Mrs. Delaney sat at her bakery window on George's Street in Dublin, watching Arthur Dufour push the wheelchair through the damp morning fog, and she thought about the word "kindness" the way one might examine a strange insect—turning it over in the fingers, looking at it from every angle, trying to understand how something so small could carry so much weight. She was sixty years old, widowed,...

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2026-06-01 08:32:19 -

The Noir Dimension
The rain in the Multiverse doesn't just fall; it judges. It's a cold, grey drizzle that smells of wet asphalt and old regrets. I carry a trench coat that has seen three different versions of the apocalypse and a cigarette that never seems to go out. My office is a hole-in-the-wall in a dimension where the sun stopped rising in 1948. I'm a Dimensional Tracer. I find people who don't want to be...

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2026-05-28 03:09:20 -

The Ring in the Sky
Mike O'Sullivan woke up on the Moon and didn't know how he got there. That was the first thing he noticed—the way the floor felt solid beneath his boots but wrong, like the ground had forgotten how to be ground. The second thing was the window, a small reinforced circle in the habitat wall that showed him the sky. The sky was wrong. Through the window, he could see Earth—a blue marble hanging...

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2026-06-03 02:57:18 -

The truck hadn't started in three years. Neither had I, really.
Carl Henderson lived in a house that wasn't a house—it was a box with a roof, sitting on a patch of dirt that used to be a parking lot before the factory closed before the town died before anything mattered. He was forty-two. He had been forty-two for six years. Time stopped moving when your wife left, your daughter stopped calling, and your truck stopped starting. The drone was military...

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2026-06-01 07:26:02 -

The Cosmic Ledger
The rain had been falling on Los Angeles for three days straight when Victoria Vane walked into my office. I knew it was her before I looked up. You learn to recognize certain footsteps in this business. The click-clack of heels on linoleum, deliberate and unhurried, the kind of walk that says you own the building even though you're renting a room above a noodle shop on Sunset. "Mr. Callahan?"...

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2026-06-03 14:39:30 -

THE LAST GREAT GATSBY'S WAR
ACT I: THE JAZZ CLUB (20%) The piano player at Le Diable Noir was playing a tune Nick Calloway had never heard but felt he had lived. It was slow and sad and sounded like a man walking through a room where everything he had loved had been taken, and he didn't know when it happened or by whose hand, so he just kept walking. Nick sat at the bar with a whiskey that was half water and watched the...

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2026-05-26 04:01:12 -

The Algorithmic Altar
The skyline of Manhattan in 2026 was a jagged crown of glass and steel, but for Leo, it was a series of overlapping probability clouds. He sat in a penthouse that felt more like a server room, the air chilled to protect the humming arrays of processors that lined the walls. Leo didn't trade stocks; he traded in the vulnerabilities of human nature. He had developed "The Reaper," a quantitative...

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2026-05-30 07:57:02 -

The Divine Spreadsheet
## Act I: The Setup In the beginning, there was the Void, and then there was the Spreadsheet. The Creator—who preferred to be called 'The Administrator'—did not create the universe with a word or a bang. He created it with a series of nested tables, conditional formatting, and a very complex set of macros. To the Administrator, the universe was not a mystery to be contemplated, but a data...

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2026-06-02 10:39:33 -

THE MIRROR IN THE BASEMENT
ACT I: THE WINDOWLESS ROOM Lord Alistair Finch-Worthingham inherited Blackwood Park on a Tuesday in November, which seemed appropriate: Tuesdays were the kind of days on which serious things happened—inheritances, deaths, the slow realization that one's life has been a performance for an audience that stopped watching years ago. The house was exactly as one might expect a country house named...

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2026-05-23 14:25:41 -

The Last Witness of the Flesh
## Act 1: The Spark The *Sovereign* descended through a sky the color of a bruised plum, landing in the heart of a dead world. Captain Julian Thorne, the last sentinel of a scorched species, stepped out into a landscape of charcoal plains and frozen oceans. For thirty years, he had been the ghost in a machine, returning to a home that the sun had cauterized. He expected a graveyard; he found a...

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2026-05-23 14:04:08 -

The rain in New York doesn't wash anything clean. It just makes the grime slicker, makes the neon signs bleed their colors into the puddles, makes the whole city glisten like something alive and sick.
Thomas O'Brien stood on the corner of Broadway and Forty-second Street and watched the rain turn the sidewalk into a mirror. He was twenty-eight, Irish-American, and tired in a way that sleep couldn't fix. His father had come from County Cork in 1902 and died in a tenement fire in 1918 — a fire that building inspectors had signed off on as "safe" two weeks before it burned. The owner was...

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2026-05-26 04:18:15 -

STATIC
STATICNancy Brady had not had a conversation with her husband Dave in months. Not because they fought. They did not fight. They just existed in the same house the way two appliances exist in the same kitchen -- plugged into the same wall, making different sounds, going about their separate routines, neither one aware of the other until something went wrong and then you had to call someone to...

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