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Can’t Decide? Try these:

Science Fiction - 📖 Father and Sun - A Father and Son journey to escape a dying world
Speculative - 🔒 Who Are You - A man contemplates the meaning of life with a stranger
Fantasy - 📖 The Fire - Byron the Blackpage confronts the superior of his Order
Horror - 📖 The Call - A saturation-diver working on an oil rig encounters a lovecraftian horror
Literary - 📖 Good Luck Charm - A man in Russia describes how a meteor changed his life
Romance -🔒 What Love Is - A new feeling permeates a man’s home, what is it?
Humor - 🔒 The Headquarters - An inside look at the workings of Substack HQ
Historical -📖 Scout Mission - An alternate history WWI story captures the beginnings of war

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Navigation for Newcomers - A quick guide to where to find things around this newsletter

Prompts - Flash Fiction Friday - Prompts to help inspire flash fiction, as well as how to find other great flash fiction from around Substack

Writing About Writing - Essays I have occasionally written about the craft of writing

Worldbuilding - Worldbuilding notes I occasionally share

Gibberish Writing Competition - Posts from previous editions of the Gibberish Writing Competition

About Me - What this whole thing is about, anyway!

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Like Gibberish? Maybe you’ll like a few of my friends:

Science Fiction -

Skeptic Fail

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Skeptic Fail Fiction

Speculative -

S.E. Reid

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Talebones ✨

Fantasy -

The Chronicler

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Work In Progress

Horror -

Shaina Read

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Kindling

Literary -

Bridget Riley

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Naptime Novelist

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Romance -

E.B. Howard

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The Story Scrapbook

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Humor -

Michael S. Atkinson

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Michael’s Musings

Historical -

Leigh Parrish

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Halcyon Horror

1. Stories set in space, in the future, or featuring futuristic concepts and ideas.

2. Stories featuring unusual concepts or ideas which are either not quite futuristic or more in the domain of the supernatural

3. This footnote is here to cure my OCD. You know what “Fantasy” is, and if I try to define it the swords come out.

4. Stories with scary, dark, or suspenseful themes not otherwise covered by one of the other genres

5. Stories which do not depict anything typically characterized by the other genres, usually set in “present day” or the “real world”.

6. You know what this is. No, not that. Just a love story. My OCD wouldn’t let me not have a footnote here.

7. Stories intended for humor or satire

8. Fiction set in a prior period of history, or an “alternate history” story taking a twist on that history.

9. “literary” is not quite right, probably more speculative, but speculative was taken and Bridget’s writing is very real feeling so I don’t think Literary is a stretch.

10. okay calling her writing ‘romance’ isn’t quite right but speculative was taken