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I have 145 stories published in
10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 44489 times
and 151 of my stories have been cherry picked.
12 of my 81 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 19 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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Hard Time Killing Floor - Part Two: The Bentonia Tuning
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The Way We Heard: Way Down
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Hard Time Killing Floor - Part One: The Auction
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The Less Miserables Lose a Friend (3)
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The Less Miserables Lose a Friend (2)
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A tightly focused theme!
Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2025
The central paradox here really works - the speaker claims memory is "false," yet still cannot help but forget. That tension drives the whole piece! I especially appreciate how you ground the abstract through concrete imagery (dust, broken galss...
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