SoulFire77

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I have 64 stories published in 4 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 10662 times and 54 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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J. Oliver Padgett

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. 

My stories

05 - The Cells (1)

Chapter 5: The Cells The rules were simple. Face the telescreen at all times. Hands visible, never in pockets, never behind the back. No sleeping...
Cherry

The Less Miserables Land a Gap (3)

(Cont.) Day Three Nova stood at the edge of the flatground area, board under her arm, watching Tanner set up something he was calling "The Gauntlet...
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Cherry

The Less Miserables Land a Gap (2)

(Cont.) That night, Nova lay on her bed staring at the water stain on her ceiling. Her whole body ached—muscles she didn't know she had, sore from...
Cherry
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The Less Miserables Land a Gap (1)

Nova's wheels caught on a crack she should have seen coming, and the board shot out from under her like it was tired of pretending. She hit the...
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04 - The Arrest (2)

Chapter 4: The Arrest (Cont.) The cell was small---perhaps three meters by two meters, though it was difficult to judge without reference points. The...

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