SoulFire77
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I have 273 stories published in
13 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 137421 times
and 299 of my stories have been cherry picked.
35 of my 167 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 46 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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Before the Ridgeline - Part Three: "The Sound"
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Before the Ridgeline - Part Two: "The Lot"
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Before the Ridgeline - Part One: "Honey"
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:::plots
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The Less Miserables Break a Board (3)
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