InkStains is a random collection of stories – fiction and nonfiction of any genre – handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs – all genres – everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I’m biased. You decide.)

InkStains: January

Literature & Fiction

Urbancik, John

Contemporary

DarkFluidity

InkStains is a random collection of stories – fiction and nonfiction of any genre – handwritten daily over the course of a year.  When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing.  He took one mandatory day off monthly.   Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs – all genres – everything was open, so long as they were complete.  These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included.  He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I’m biased. You decide.)

InkStains: February

InkStains: March

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year.When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing.He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete.These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included.He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

InkStains: April

InkStains: May

InkStains: June

InkStains: July

InkStains: August

“What happens is, the world, everything we know, this thing we call Reality, it exists in our heads. It doesn’t really exist. And someone decided they didn’t like Reality. Or maybe not that they didn’t like it, but they wanted to try another. They wanted it so hard, Reality changed, and now we’re in their head. Not our own. See, their Reality shifted, and in it, you don’t exist. You just got left over.” Welcome to Kevin Nichols’ new Reality.

Stale Reality

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

SYNOPSIS: In the deserts of the Middle East, the Cradle of Life, where civilization began, there has always been conflict. And there has always been magic and mystery, danger and demons. The djinns exist. Whether in modern Babylon, or a Babylon forgotten by time, passions run strong. Babylon rises from the sand, unexpected, to both entice and devour. And the sands fall from Babylon... Stare with Gabriel as Babylon rises from the pages of myth and history. March through Iraq with Don Bloom and the 3rd Infantry -- and into the remains of Eden. In these two original stories Brian Keene and John Urbancik explore THE RISE AND FALL OF BABYLON.

Two novellettes from these two new masters of dark fiction, presented in the old Ace Double-type format... the book has two covers, finish one tale, flip the chapbook over and read the other! Deena Warner has ingeniously created wraparound cover art that ties both stories together.

The Rise and Fall of Babylon

Keene, Brian

Earthling Publications

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