"The Suff": a comprehensive timeline
Welcome one and all to the official timeline for our very own Substack-grown urban legend: The Suff.
Below, you will find each author in chronological order (ending with alternate realities) complete with links. Their contributions have made this wonderful event so colorful.
Stay a while and embark with us on this journey!
-The Chronicler and Macabre Monday team
Working theory: like a Lovecraftian beast of lore, the Suff is so powerful that its thoughts radiate. Those who are sensitive perceive these thoughts either subconsciously or while dreaming.
Harold Ember somewhere in an ancient Eastern nation, the One Who Watches finds himself watched
John Coon submits evidence of an ancient Amazonian tribe’s contact with the suff:
The Amazonians had contact with the Suff circa 900 AD. The tablet discovered by Hugh and crew is carbon dated to that era. Some think they entered the temple in the 1930s. Others believe it happened in the 1980s. Timing of the event is fluid because of the Suff's interference.
1863 Leigh Parrish A nurse comes into contact with a strange man.
1883 Josh Tatter
by Honeygloom. An art restoration assistant to the Suffolk County Historical Society comes face to face with a strange and terrifying being. (Click the picture for the link)
Merry Suffmas from Honeygloom:
December 1899 by John Coon : The Hamishton Letter
1912 Daniel O’Donnell Something creeps in the periphery
1915 “Andrew Portnoy, a gifted polyglot and grifter, has a horrifying encounter on one of WWI’s worst battlefields.” by Daniel Baldwin
Possibly 1921: blues lyrics discovered by Jon T
1926 The Chronicler: Jacqueline le Fay succumbs to the Suff
Part I
Part II
1926 (three days later) by Yakubian Ape : Ralph is interrogated following the disappearance of Jackie le Fay
1935 Blues singer, Robert Johnson suffers a strange encounter by Derek Petty
June 6, 1944 Jeff Kinnard: The Suff is witnessed by a Private during WWII
1973 Meanwhile, in the USSR… Michael S. Atkinson
1983 Sara Dietz: many years after Jackie le Fay’s odd disappearance/reappearance, Fanny Gotlieb takes her to visit a specialist…
footage from ~90s-2000s: Cole Noble tattoos and mass amnesia
2006: Jon T uncovers a transcript referring to The Suff:
2018: appears on a school’s chromebook The Casual Writer
Current day
Scoot a man finds a strange file on his newly acquired computer
Bridget Riley : A parasite is awakened
Victim: Patricia J.L. 👻🧶🖊️ lending to the theory that it is an inescapable lovecraftian virus/shared thought
Victim: Honeygloom The Suff continues to manifest itself in mysterious ways… : Haiku Prompt
Title, goes here : A box must be destroyed, but not by fire
Part II
The Suff pays a second visit to a family Miles MacNaughton
When the Suff comes a-callin’… by Olivia St. Lewis
The Suff has a unique influence on creative-types. by Masha Cissé
Future
2028 AD by ReddOscarWrites “The_Suff.txt” haunts a man
Alternate Realities:
“The elders were sure that even the shadow of this creature should not fall on their children. And maybe they were right.” by Isha Jain
Part II: “Every villain deserves a second chance. Right? And what about the hero?”
It seems to have transcended time and space and fallen into an alternative reality: Michael S. Atkinson
Kay Moulton two brothers rough-housing has disastrous consequences
Pew Pew Something goes grievously awry for a flight lieutenant while repairing a satellite
Robin George somewhere in the Realm of Armaviri, 779 AOW (After Odin’s Wrath), a spell goes sideways
The Man Behind the Screen Heroine Gaiur (In the Giant’s Shadow) faces a strange and shadowy creature
Somewhere in Suffolk County - a survivor! by Jon T
“Releasing the Suffron” by Joseph Wiess
A poem by Lizzy Co
If you have the chance, don’t forget to check out these authors’ other fantastic works!