SoulFire77

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I have 185 stories published in 10 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. 

My stories

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No Forwarding Address - Part Four

He told the deputy he was all right. It came out steady. The young man bent back to his box, and the year settled around the reporter again. Nineteen...
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No Forwarding Address - Part Three

He spread the letters under the lamp, the gray ribbon coiled on the table where he had worked it loose, and meant to read them all before morning. He...
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No Forwarding Address - Part Two

He had been young the night they found the postmaster. Young enough that his own knees gave under him when he saw the man on the floor. He had been...
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No Forwarding Address - Part One

The road into La Honda stayed dark under the redwoods long after the sky went white. The reporter came up the last stretch on foot. Sheriff's cars...
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The Less Miserables Face the Council (3)

The vote was four to three in favor of renovation. For a moment, Garrett wasn't sure he'd heard correctly. The words didn't make sense—after months...

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