PROGRESS BAR
Black Heart Sanctum: Adult Folk Horror
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75%: Submissions / Editorial
80K words
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The Wicker Man meets The Ritual in a contemporary Indian setting
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When a hiking accident strands Onir Gadiyaram, a traumatized man, in a quaint Indian village where legends come to life, he must brave dark, supernatural temptations and flee before he is trapped there forever.
To Lend A Killing Hand: Fantasy Crime
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35%: Beta Reading
133K words
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The Silence of the Lambs but in a high fantasy secondary world drawing from South Indian culture.
A palm-maiming serial killer grips the fate of a nation of alimenters who shape matter with hand gestures.
In The Deadwood's Hollows: Gothic Horror
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4%: Outlining
Expected to be 60-75K words
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A spiritual sequel to Black Heart Sanctum. Old tensions resurface as a fracturing family gathers in its ancestral village to mourn one of its twin matriarchs. As it debates over selling the ancestral manor to the government for a tempting offer or sticking to traditions, another force awakens, eager to make its opinion heard. And it has an agenda of its own.
Zircon IA: Adult Sci-Fi Mystery/Thriller
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41%: with Beta Readers
165K words
Titanic meets Clue in a Technothriller setting in the near-term future.
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It is 2084. The world eagerly tracks the maiden voyage of Thalassic, the world's first AI-run cruise ship. A college dropout and a private investigator navigate the fallout from a double murder aboard, behind which is a saboteur bent on pushing this voyage to its furthest breaking point.
Short Story Submissions
4 stories left in the trenches
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"AE[I]OU"
(4755 words)
Neon Dystopia | March 2025
"I have something to show and tell you before I abort myself": says the evite from acclaimed synthetic artist, Oster, whom artivist Aurati worked to ban. The purpose of his meeting, it turns out, shines a horrifying new light on her personal qualms with her mother, a digital artist, and her father's absence in her life.
"The Anomura Anomaly"
(2789 words)
HyphenPunk | October 2024
Hoppers teleport you long distances; you can lurk from the comfort of your home. You avail one but, thanks to a glitch, your atoms get rearranged into a crab. How Kafkaesque. You angrily call the customer service, but this call may change your fate.
"A Fairly Hell Wedding" (5900 words) | Dragon Gems Summer 2024 Anthology| September 2024
A human couple stuck in Purgatory strike a deal with a witch: she will grant them their freedom if they crash Hell's grandest wedding yet, but hilarity ensues when they chance upon a human baby preserved for nuptial sacrifice.
"A Little Perspective"
(2798 words)
Unstamatic Unconditional Accept | November 2022
Authored as Suraj Adiray
A contemporary story that asks whether there is a gender to the power of imagination. Or an age limit for that matter. When does society expect a child to stop being a free mind and start conforming?