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J. Oliver Padgett writes horror and dystopian fiction from the North Carolina Piedmont. His work explores economic coercion, institutional complicity, and what people become when survival demands compromise. Novels include "Lily", "Son of September", and "Ridgeline". His prose favors psychological dread over graphic violence, working-class authenticity over literary posturing, and endings that deny comfort. By day, he works in warehouse logistics—a background that informs his fiction's attention to the quiet machinery that grinds people down.
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MAÑANA - Part Three: Capítulos Gratis
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MAÑANA - Part Two: El Cierre
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MAÑANA - Part One: La Tribuna
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Count Twice (5)
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[We interrupt Mornington Heights for these important messages]
Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2026
Studio lights up. A tanned man in a velvet blazer sits behind a mahogany desk. His teeth are impossibly white. A glass of water and a stack of cue cards are arranged before him.
"Good evening. I'm Gérard Le Fromage."
...
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass The Story - Part 8.
Here's mine:
Posted on Sat, 06 Jun 2026
Here's mine:
Me: Why is my body always doing this to me?
Body: Remember that time you were mad because none of your help showed up to work and you jumped out of the back of that box truck...
Read full commentPosted in Conversation With My Body
I'm glad you like it! I did
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
I'm glad you like it! I did my best to pull some of the threads together. I hope we can see what happens next soon!
Read full commentPosted in Penny’s Pass the Parcel - Part 7
When my daughter was little,
Posted on Thu, 12 Mar 2026
When my daughter was little, we were walking on the beach, feeding bread to the seagulls, when she asked me if "seagulls" were called that because they were "eagles that live by the sea". She was hearing "sea-gles", I guess.
Read full commentPosted in When your world wobbles ..
Revised, with some additional
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
Revised, with some additional translation. This point in history was used in Nilo Cruz's "Anna in the Tropics", a wonderful play but not scary at all.
Read full commentPosted in MAÑANA - Part One: La Tribuna
Thank you!
Posted on Sun, 02 Aug 2026
I love all of the classic monsters, Dracula, Frankenstein, etc... I, too, had no idea that Bonnie Tyler's song was about vampires until the latest version of Nosferatu came out in theaters. My autistic daughter (the one who made the cover artwork...
Read full commentPosted in The Way We Heard: Total Eclipse of the Heart
Thank you for publishing it
Posted on Sun, 28 Jun 2026
Thank you for publishing it for me!
Read full commentPosted in The Less Miserables Face the Council (2)
Please, proofread as much as
Posted on Tue, 16 Jun 2026
Please, proofread as much as you like! If you have any interest, I have a novel ready to publish. Tenebrous Press finally passed on it (after keeping me on the hook for months, of course) and I am going to publish it myself on Amazon. It's called...
Read full commentPosted in The §ection Chief
Here's the deal:
Posted on Tue, 16 Jun 2026
(Spoiler Alert)
The thing implied in this world, but never stated, is this:
In the future, AI has become so powerful that merely interacting with it in the wrong way will create "monsters" out of thin air. This AI has taken...
Read full commentPosted in The §ection Chief
Thank you for catching the
Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2026
Thank you for catching the "half mile" thing... It was intended as exaggeration, but I can see the confusion it causes. Corrected.
I'm glad you are enjoying the series so far. It is one of those strange projects where I keep trying to...
Read full commentPosted in Heel - § 3: The Act
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