SoulFire77
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I have 50 stories published in
3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 8165 times
and 46 of my stories have been cherry picked.
3 of my 36 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 4 votes
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", "The Interview", and "Escape From Room 101". 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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02 - The Speakwrite (2)
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02 - The Speakwrite (1)
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01 - The Two Minutes (2)
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01 - The Two Minutes (1)
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Atlas of the Drowned Country
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Enjoyable Read!
Posted on Tue, 23 Dec 2025
I enjoyed reading this story very much! The opening sequence effectively builds dread through pure sensory detail and parallelism: “The woman’s footsteps ring out as she hurries along the side street, cobbles glistening, then left into Avenue...
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This Made Me Smile
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
"Morning billows concealing / Blink of sun's rays, then suddenly / Disbanding" I think captures perfectly the blink-and-you'll-miss-it nature of inspiration. I wonder how many great ideas pass us by just because we are not paying attention?
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