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I have 104 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
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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. 

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Cherry

Admission (2)

He moved on. A Fiji Mermaid — a monkey's torso stitched to a dried fish tail, seams visible, the face a shriveled primate grimace. GENIUNE FIJI...
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Cherry

Admission (1)

The chain-link shook after he let go. A low rattle, the kind that carried. Cody hung from the top bar for a second with his sneakers scraping the...
Cherry

Courtesy Calls: The Better Business Bureau (3)

I also filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau, because redundancy is a professional habit and because a labor complaint arriving...
Cherry

Courtesy Calls: The Better Business Bureau (2)

On my fifth visit Sheryl was not working. The schedule had moved her again. The woman on the register was Connie, the heavyset woman from my first...
Cherry

Courtesy Calls: The Better Business Bureau (1)

Rule 3: Solve the information problem. The rest solves itself. I was not eavesdropping on the woman at Holt's, because eavesdropping implies effort,...

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