SoulFire77
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I have 260 stories published in
12 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 123700 times
and 284 of my stories have been cherry picked.
32 of my 160 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 43 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 Nine: Still
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Ridgeline - Part Eight: Blood
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Ridgeline - Part Seven: The Inside Place
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Ridgeline - Part Six: The Only Warm Thing
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Ridgeline - Part Five: Flinch and Hold
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