Word of the Day
Zeugma
One word doing two different jobs at once.
More words →Serialized literary fiction
Five pen names.
One hand.
Five voices that sound nothing like each other, and the writer behind them. New episodes every week. Start anywhere — every story opens free, and you don’t need an account to read it.
Literary Fiction
The rituals that hold a person together when the noise gets too loud.
- The Last Good Swing
DaylightEnter →
Southern Literary Fiction · 18+
Forging fiction, finding truth.
- Crash Point
- Reluctant Hero
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Erotic Literary Fiction · 18+
Literature that happens to be unafraid of the skin it lives in.
- Aftershocks
- Blackwing
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Flash Fiction Erotica · 18+
One sitting. No apologies.
- Acoustic Signature
- Built for Sin
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Satire & Cultural Commentary
Nothing sacred. Everything questioned.
- A More Perfect Fruit Union
- Grounds for Resignation
- Rupert
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Memoir & Essay · No pen name
Tyler Wayne Bussell
The five above are masks. This one is the face.
Over the Mountain · Poetry · Three Days of Naughty · Free to read
Today in the house
Fun Fact
A day on Venus is longer than its year. Venus takes 243 Earth days to spin once, and only 225 to circle the Sun.
Your birthday would come before bedtime.
The Five-Second Rule
The waiter said “enjoy your meal.” You said “you too.” You thought about it on the drive home. Then in the shower. Then at 3 a.m. Then again just now.
Okay, we lied. That was ten seconds. You’re still thinking about it.
The Margin Note · this week’s lesson
Set the Pattern, Then Break It
Give the reader a rhythm to trust, then take it away.
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