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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷
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Bilingual columnist, cartoonist, writer, painter, born and grew up in a picturesque neighbourhood on the mountainside of Hymettus, Athens. Now well in my sixth decade and plenty grumpy, I live in a scenic village in the Växjö area, Sweden.
Neon prowlers

The city’s heartbeat was electric, a constant hum of hovercars, synth drums, and the occasional scream of someone dumb enough to cross a hybrid.

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#BioHack #BioHackers #Dystopia #Hybrids #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory
New Genesis – Neon prowlers
Rain slicked neon reflected off cracked pavement as Dex “Torque” Rainer ducked beneath a flickering holo-sign advertising noodle synths and synthetic adrenaline shots. The city’s heartbeat was elec…
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December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Silent virus strike

Dr. Alex Mercer didn’t do small crises. He didn’t do disasters.

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#BlitzOps #Action #Thriller #Adventure #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #Spy #Crime
December 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Shadows among raptors

Edna Sullivan wiped the sweat from her brow, her binoculars trembling slightly in her hands as she scanned the dense canopy above.

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#RaptorTribes #Dinosaurs #Adventure #Action #paleontology #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory
Shadows among raptors
Edna Sullivan wiped the sweat from her brow, her binoculars trembling slightly in her hands as she scanned the dense canopy above. “I told you this place doesn’t obey maps,” she muttered, eyes narr…
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December 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Death by Lightning (2025) – Mini series

What I got was a five-hour-long, beautifully shot, masterfully acted, and utterly unhinged game of “Will He, Won’t He?” where the “He” is a bolt of lightning from the heavens.

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#MiniSeries #review #miniseriesreview
Death by Lightning (2025) – Mini series
When I sat down to watch Death by Lightning, a mini-series about the assassination of President James A. Garfield, I was expecting a sober, prestige drama about Gilded Age politics. You know, the u…
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December 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Tears of innocence

The fog rolled through the streets of London like a living shroud, curling around gas lamps and soot-streaked brick, wrapping the city in a clammy embrace.

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#Fantasy #fiction #ShortStory #Crime #Mystery #VictorianMystery #LondonCrime
Tears of innocence
The fog rolled through the streets of London like a living shroud, curling around gas lamps and soot-streaked brick, wrapping the city in a clammy embrace. Carriages creaked over cobblestones slick…
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December 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The forged will

Her son, Aris, was hammering away in his workshop downstairs, the rhythmic thud-thud-thud blending with the cicadas’ buzz.

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#ShortStory #AthensNoir #GreekNoir #Fiction #Crime #Mystery #Greece #Dictatorship #Noir #Sleuth #GrandmotherSleuth
December 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Feathers of fate

Sister Bianca Erandi Cotilla adjusted the heavy folds of her habit and wiped the sweat from her forehead as the sun blazed over the cobbled streets of Mexico City.

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#Crime #Nun #HistoricalPulp #Mystery #RebelNun #Spain #ShortStory
Sister Erandi – Feathers of fate
Sister Bianca Erandi Cotilla adjusted the heavy folds of her habit and wiped the sweat from her forehead as the sun blazed over the cobbled streets of Mexico City. The air smelled of baked tortilla…
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December 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Obsidian Hunger

The wasteland stretched out in waves of rusted steel and bone-dry sand, a place where the sun bled without warmth and shadows lingered too long.

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#Fantasy #PostApocalyptic #ScienceFiction #Supernatural #ShortStory #NordicLegends #Viking
Ragnarok echoes – Obsidian Hunger
The wasteland stretched out in waves of rusted steel and bone-dry sand, a place where the sun bled without warmth and shadows lingered too long. Hilda Carson wiped the dust from her leather coat, t…
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December 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Tickles-The-Bear

The night had fallen over MoonlitCity, and the lanterns lining the cobbled streets shivered in the autumn wind throwing long shadows across the rooftops.

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#MagicCreatures #Fantasy #MoonlitCity #FantasyStory #WhispersofMoonlitCity #Pukwudgie
Tickles-The-Bear – Pukwudgie
The night had fallen over Moonlit City, and the lanterns lining the cobbled streets shivered in the autumn wind, throwing long shadows across the rooftops. From the highest tower of the Silver Spir…
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December 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Tides of Apollo

Step Lindgren woke to the buzz of a fluorescent light hanging crookedly above him, its hum the single thread tying together an otherwise silent, bare room.

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#fiction #LoopDoor #SciFi #HistoricalFiction #TimeTravel #ShortStory #ScienceFiction
Loop door – Tides of Apollo
Step Lindgren woke to the buzz of a fluorescent light hanging crookedly above him, its hum the single thread tying together an otherwise silent, bare room. Concrete walls. A metal cot bolted to the…
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December 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The bone orchard

It was the scent that first drew me to the affair, a cloying sweetness that hung over the town of Harrow’s End like a shroud.

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#Crime #ficttion #Mystery #Goth #PostApocalyptic #ShortStory #SciFi #ThanosKalamidas
Pallid Echoes – The bone orchard
It was the scent that first drew me to the affair, a cloying sweetness that hung over the town of Harrow’s End like a shroud. I am a man who deals in endings, not beginnings; a private investigator…
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December 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The Mayor's secret

A thousand kronor diverted from the parks maintenance fund. Five thousand from the library’s new acquisitions budget.

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#VäxjöLakeMysteries #VäxjöLake #Mystery #Crime #ShortStory #Fiction #Kronoberg #VäxjöThriller #Novell
December 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Agatha Prowse

It was the kind of rain that whispered of drowned things and forgotten paths. It was, in other words, a typical Tuesday.

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#fiction #ShortStory #Elf #Supernatural #Ghost #HauntedMotel #Haunted #HauntedB&B #ShortStory #HauntingStory
Transient ghost – Agatha Prowse
The rain didn’t fall on Anchester so much as it was wrung from the sky, a sodden, grey cloth twisting over the Hampshire downs. It was the kind of rain that whispered of drowned things and fo…
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December 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Vinyl Noir – Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton

My name’s Larch, and my office was a second-floor walk-up that always smelled of damp wool and regret.

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#MusicalJourney #StoriesInspiredbySongs #SongsInspireFiction #ShortStory #Fiction #Rock
Vinyl Noir – Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton
The rain fell on the city like a slow, grey shroud. It wasn’t a storm, just a persistent, weeping drizzle that slicked the asphalt and turned the neon signs on the boulevard into blurred, bleeding …
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December 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Supernatural investigation

It wasn’t a storm, just a constant, cold drizzle that slicked the cobblestones and painted the neon signs of the French Quarter in blurred, weeping colours.

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#Crime #Mystery #Chef #ShortStory #Sleuth #Supernatural #Paranormal
Shadow Chef – Supernatural investigation
The rain fell on Hyperion with the patience of a gravedigger. It wasn’t a storm, just a constant, cold drizzle that slicked the cobblestones and painted the neon signs of the French Quarter i…
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December 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
An unvarnished heart

She guided her sensible rental car up a winding gravel drive that seemed to go on for miles, the tyres crunching a pessimistic rhythm against the stone.

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#Fiction #Romance #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas
Jigsaw romance – An unvarnished heart
The rain fell on the Yorkshire moors with a relentless, grey determination, perfectly matching Elara Vance’s mood. She guided her sensible rental car up a winding gravel drive that seemed to go on …
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December 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Ephemera #143 by Thanos Kalamidas

#ephemera #cartoon #society #contemporarynews #democracy
December 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM