SoulFire77
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I have 212 stories published in
10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 87767 times
and 232 of my stories have been cherry picked.
19 of my 128 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 27 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", "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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Ridgeline - Part One: The Trail
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I. Deep Storage - Part Three
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I. Deep Storage - Part Two
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I. Deep Storage - Part One
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Since April
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