Horrific Scribes and Scribbles, February 2026
Joseph Hirsch
Third Scribbling, Feb. 3, 2026
Joseph Hirsch holds an MA in German Studies and spent four years in the Army, some of that time wandering around Germany (sometimes in the cities, mostly through forests.)
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Teufelsrad
“Slowly something began to emerge from the hole, a long shadow backlit by whatever fires burned within the earth…”
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Author Keywords: Cult, Folk Horror, Demons, Rural, Germany, Bavaria, Fertility, Goddess, Demoness, Tectonics
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): Extreme sexual content, some violence.
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Paul Edmonds
Joined February 5, 2026
Fiction steeped in grime, bad decisions, and small-town decay
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“Grand Guignol“
A guys’ poker night gone wrong; smut, friendship, and a cursed videotape spiral into carnage.
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Author Keywords: Analog horror; Videotape; Smut; Small-town.
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): Sexualized violence.
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Michael Hessel-Mial
Joined February 12, 2026
Far-future poetry dispatches tell of the social struggles!
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“Pseudodisplay for Voice and Captive“
Performance art script from a spacefaring iconoclast; only one human sacrifice necessary.
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Author Keywords: spaceflight, avant-garde, experimental, ritual, performance
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): Brief mention of implied violence.
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H.J. Dutton
Second Scribbling, Feb. 17, 2026
I write of dark rooms, creaking floorboards, and things that go bump.
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“Darcy’s Docks“
The entrance’s teeth dripped rainwater, paint having peeled since the park’s closure in ‘97.
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Author Keywords: theme park, uncanny, guilt, grief
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): [silence]
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Kyle Rader
Joined February 24, 2026
Kyle Rader doesn’t color inside the lines and thinks the greatest sin a writer can commit is to bore his or her readers.
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“Cloud Nine“
The sky isn’t falling. It hungers.
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Author Keywords: Post-apocalyptic; Horror; Sci-Fi Horror
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): None.
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Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Third Scribbling, Feb. 26, 2026
The parakeet in my office chirps loudest when I’m on a Zoom call.
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“Patty Perkins, Nine Years Old“
Patty could have sworn the sound she heard was a baby crying.
Read “Patty Perkins, Nine Years Old” (~2700 words)
Author Keywords: Basement, folklore, biology, gambling, Ohio, demons, devils
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): [silence]
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