Macabre January

We're deep in it

Jon T

and

Ma Cobb

Jan 20, 2025

Good wintertime to y’all. Ma Cobb here with a quick note and reminder to check out the chat this week.

It was great to see all the drabbles from the

John Coon

prompt last week.

I know the promised a contest soon and it’ll be in the works and announced soon. But for now check out the quick digest from the Macabre Monday community last week

Feed Your Head - Fiction, First Drafts, Classics, Essays

Ep.1: Cracked

"I knew it was me when I looked in the mirror. The thing is, I didn't feel any connection to my reflection…

8 days ago · 4 likes · 1 comment · S.L. Stallings

Through a Glass, Darkly

Sleep, Dearie, Sleep: Start Here

Archie Craig is an ambitious young architect poised to make his mark on a new nation. Leaving a wife and child behind in Scotland to seek opportunity and fortune in the burgeoning United States, he has toiled away as an apprentice to one of the young country's most sought-after architects. Now A…

7 days ago · 12 likes · 5 comments · Jean Marie Bauhaus

Dunmore Dispatch

The Ghost's Theatre

The play was called The Tragedie of Caligar d’Montreno, and it was said to be cursed. The completed manuscript was found lying next to its author, the late renowned playwright Eugel Menninwise, who had written the final monologue then driven his dirk into his eye and all the way to the hilt. His whole self he bled onto those pages… in more ways than one…

6 days ago · 9 likes · 7 comments · Ian Dunmore

Everywhere and Nowhere: Explore Fantastic Worlds

Ivy League Illusion, Part 2

Need an earlier part…

8 days ago · 14 likes · 2 comments · Bill Hiatt

Automatic Writer

【5】【7】

TW: Gun Violence…

8 days ago · 47 likes · 30 comments · Sean Thomas McDonnell

Age of Aquarius

Memento Mori

Robin held out the chunk of grey speckled stone on her open palm. One side was jagged and the other smooth. A faint scrub of moss clung to its rough edges…

9 days ago · 41 likes · 16 comments · EJ Trask

Pandora's Box of Infinite Stories

The Hawthorn Tree - Number 3

Number 1 Number 2…

8 days ago · 4 likes · 1 comment · V Kelly-Sibley

The Trials of Astra (and other short stories)

Ch. 7 Lexuie's Wood

For the other chapters in TAS, click here…

11 days ago · 7 likes · 2 comments · L.L. Ford

Telegrams from Bloodstream City

Bad Cargo

There’s a lot to know about Mars, but only one thing that matters: you can’t find good whiskey anywhere…

Listen now

8 days ago · 6 likes · Brian Martinez

Dans Deliberations

Riding the Night

I should flee…

8 days ago · 29 likes · 16 comments · Daniel O’Donnell

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Ma Cobb

Macabre lady with an axe

Macabre January

We're deep in it

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