Tag: violence

In The Lab w/ Caroline and her Talking Cat — Sci-Fi

A scientist with long locs, round glasses and a white lab coat sits at a small wooden table over a chessboard, a cat perched on the table across from her, inside a domed laboratory.

In The Lab w/ Caroline and her Talking Cat — Sci-Fi

Published by Mel Rook on April 24, 2026

In the last city on Earth, a demoted geneticist plays chess with the talking cat who was once her lover and once tried to end the human race.

Uninteresting Moments of Necessary Silence — Nun

Uninteresting Moments of Necessary Silence — Nun

Published by Melvin Horton on March 7, 2026

In a 1933 monastery of enforced silence, a nun with a brutal past is undone by a beautiful novice’s teasing flirtation. A tender, forbidden queer romance.

Dirty Dozens in the Schoolyard — A Catholic Memoir

Dirty Dozens featured image: a boy in school uniform reads a book alone on a bench against a brick wall in hard sun.

Dirty Dozens in the Schoolyard — A Catholic Memoir

Published by M. Christopher Horton on January 24, 2026

On a Catholic blacktop ruled by the dozens, a bookish boy trades insults and faces a knife to survive a world that draws real blood at home. Read it.