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Cul-de-sac, Växjö!
116. Watcher in the Woods

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116. Watcher in the Woods

The Swedish countryside was silent, its stillness punctuated only by the occasional rustle of leaves or the far-off call of a bird. The air was crisp, each breath sharp against my lungs as I walked…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 3h

My Father, the BTK Killer (2025)

In this Netflix documentary, Kerri Rawson invites us into her very unique family reunion.

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My Father, the BTK Killer (2025)

A family reunion you’ll never forget 🎬 The Plot In this Netflix documentary, Kerri Rawson invites us into her very unique family reunion. Her dad, Dennis Rader, was a charming church leader and Sco…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 3h

The heart of the glade guardian

Every sound around her, the buzz of insects, the distant call of howler monkeys, seemed charged with something older than the jungle itself.

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#Fantasy #Fiction #StrangeAnimals #FictionAnimals #SciFi #ShortStory

The heart of the glade guardian

Daphne Sinclair pressed her palm against the rough bark of a centuries-old oak, her breath shallow, her khaki shirt clinging to her shoulders in the thick Amazon humidity. Every sound around her, t…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 4h

The scent of memory

I leaned against the brickwork in the shadow of a fire escape, the water dripping from the gutter above tracing a cold path down my neck.

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#Paranormal #Cat #Ghost #Supernatural #Noir #Werewolf #Thriller #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Howling Sleuth – The scent of memory

The rain on the streets of New Seattle was a greasy, chemical smear, washing the neon signs into bleeding watercolors but doing nothing to cleanse the city’s deeper stains. I leaned against the bri…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 1d

The bleeding chair

But on this rain-lashed Tuesday in rural Småland, the order shattered. The last patient of the day, young Liam Sjöberg, never left the plush green chair.

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#VäxjöLakeMysteries #Mystery #ShortStory #Fiction #Kronoberg #VäxjöThriller

Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 1d

Of monks, misfits, and a miserable mug of ale

Hard to tell when all the mornings smell like wet straw and questionable humanity.

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The Medieval vlogger – Of monks, misfits, and a miserable mug of ale

Journal Entry #19: Day 19, I think. Hard to tell when all the mornings smell like wet straw and questionable humanity. Anyway, today has been one of those “What the hell, medieval London?” kind of …

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 1d

Athenian arbiter – The choice

Athens in the late morning sun blazed like a golden forge. The marble steps of the Areopagus glinted, and the Agora pulsed with voices.

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Athenian arbiter – The choice

Athens in the late morning sun blazed like a golden forge. The marble steps of the Areopagus glinted, and the Agora pulsed with voices, merchants shouting over philosophers, and the constant hum of…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 1d

The calculus of old affections

Inside, Alexander Croft, the newly minted and notoriously ruthless King’s Counsel, tightened his grip on the handle of his briefcase.

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#Fiction #Romance #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Jigsaw romance – The calculus of old affections

The rain fell on London in a determined, silver drizzle, misting the windows of the chauffeured town car and blurring the grand Georgian façades of Mayfair into a watercolour dream. Inside, Alexand…

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The cat, the corpse, and the Jag

The thing about murderers is they always smell faintly of arrogance. Like cheap aftershave and regret.

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#TherapistLife #VigilanteVibes #thesphinx #Profiler #ProfilerVigilante #ProfilerJournal #fiction

The cat, the corpse, and the Jag

The thing about murderers is they always smell faintly of arrogance. Like cheap aftershave and regret. Today started with a group therapy session. Convicts, ex-cons, the occasional sociopath who th…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 2d

Teapot Will Trouble

The reading of the will was supposed to be a straightforward affair, but when the lawyer unsealed the envelope only to find it empty, chaos erupted.

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#Crime #Life #Mystery #OldWoman #ShortStory #Sleuth #ThanosKalamidas

Wilma’s Wires – Teapot Will Trouble

The small, picturesque town of Högafors was usually a place of quiet routines and predictable scandals, until old man Gustav Björk dropped dead in his armchair, leaving behind a fortune and a famil…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 2d

Moonlight Confidential

Rain glazed the cracked pavement of Whitechapel like a crime scene preserved in crystal.

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#Supernatural #Crime #Mystery #Warewolf #ShortStory #Paranormal #ThanosKalamidas

Sorian Ranulf – Moonlight Confidential

The night was damp, as London nights usually were when bad things chose to happen. Rain glazed the cracked pavement of Whitechapel like a crime scene preserved in crystal. The streetlamps flickered…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 3d

The whispering glass pact

The cobblestones glistened with rain, reflecting fractured halos of light that trembled under the weight of the mist

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The whispering glass pact

London, 1888, fog coiled around the gaslamps like a living thing. The cobblestones glistened with rain, reflecting fractured halos of light that trembled under the weight of the mist. Somewhere, a …

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 3d

Echoes fade fast

Marcus Chen’s story started like any other night in the city, smoky bars, cracked cymbals, the restless beat of a small-town band. But that night, it ended in silence.

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#AI #Art #PostApocalyptic #Robot #SciFi #ShortStory

Ashen strokes – Echoes fade fast

I’m DVC-8. Artist model. Memory dust collector. I move through the ruins. Paint the dead. Marcus Chen’s story started like any other night in the city, smoky bars, cracked cymbals, the restless bea…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 3d

The snuffling snicket

It began, as the most perilous adventures so often do, with a profound and deeply philosophical question posed by Mr. Magyte Longbash.

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#Fiction #YoungReaders #Humour #Adventure #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas

Tails of furry trouble – The snuffling snicket

It began, as the most perilous adventures so often do, with a profound and deeply philosophical question posed by Mr. Magyte Longbash. “I wonder,” he said, pausing to blow a stray whisker from his …

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 4d

The danger here isn’t just Musk platforming a bigot. The danger is that he’s normalizing interference from foreign billionaires in democratic processes. Britain’s politics are already fragile, polarized, angry, disillusioned.

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Musk’s British fascisms

Elon Musk has always had a flair for chaos disguised as innovation.

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 4d

The kindness of strangers

The first brick in the façade of Växjö’s perfect little world crumbled on a Tuesday. It wasn’t a dramatic collapse, not at first.

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 4d

The beast with the ridiculous arms

The late afternoon sun blazed through the jagged peaks surrounding Raptor Land, turning the canyon walls to molten gold.

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The beast with the ridiculous arms

The late afternoon sun blazed through the jagged peaks surrounding Raptor Land, turning the canyon walls to molten gold. Dust hung in the still air like suspended ash. Somewhere in the labyrinth ah…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 4d

The pilfered porcelain pig

The crisp autumn air of Växjö carried the scent of burning wood and anticipation.

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#Fiction #ShortStory #ThanosKalamidas #Humour #Sleuth #Mystery #Crime #Sweden #KronobergCounty

Teacher’s riddles – The pilfered porcelain pig

The crisp autumn air of Växjö carried the scent of burning wood and anticipation. The annual ‘Krokig Auktion’ (Crooked Auction) at the town hall was the social event of the season, not …

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 4d

Mitsotakis’ presence in Gaza summit will be remembered for what it was, a meaningless cameo by a leader whose greatest political achievement is mastering the art of pretending to matter.

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#KyriakosMitsotakis #Greece #Authoritarianism #Corruption

The photo opportunity Greek PM

There are politicians, who lead, and there are politicians who follow and then there’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a man who neither leads nor follows, but merely poses.

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 5d

The Athenian run

Myrto Zervou sat on her balcony, fanning herself with an old newspaper, her sharp eyes scanning the neighborhood below.

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#ShortStory #AthensNoir #GreekNoir #Fiction #Crime #Mystery #Greece #Dictatorship #Noir #Sleuth #Grandmother

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 5d

Zephyra Stormdance

Her wings shimmered in hues of pale sapphire and sea-foam green, ever shifting, never still.

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#MagicCreatures #Fantasy #MoonlitCity #FantasyStory #WhispersofMoonlitCity #ThanosKalamidas #Fairy

Zephyra Stormdance – Fairy

The moon hung vast and argent above the cloud-throned towers of Moonlit City, its light spilling like silver wine across cobblestone streets and the high-vaulted spires. Above them all, where the l…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 5d

Ashes and laughter

The first snow fell on Boston like a joke nobody got.

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#ShortStory #CivilWar #PostApopcalyptic #Dystopia #SciFi #CivilWarUSA #USA #ScienceFiction #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas

UnCivil War – Ashes and laughter

The first snow fell on Boston like a joke nobody got. By then, the power had been out for three weeks, and the only things burning brighter than the trash barrels on the street were the tempers of …

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 6d

The pea beneath the towers

A city of steel and holograms, glass towers and midnight alleys, where the rats wore tailored suits and the pigeons probably had better lawyers than you did.

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#Fantasy #FairyTales #FairyTalesHeroes #Action #Adventure #Fiction

The pea beneath the towers

Megalopolis never slept. It prowled instead. A city of steel and holograms, glass towers and midnight alleys, where the rats wore tailored suits and the pigeons probably had better lawyers than you…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 6d

Blood, Beats, Betrayal

The neon sign of The Crimson Chord flickered like a dying heartbeat, casting bloody light over the rain-slicked pavement.

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#TrailerParkWitch #Witch #Superntural #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #SupernaturalShortStory

Trailer Park Witch – Blood, Beats, Betrayal

The neon sign of The Crimson Chord flickered like a dying heartbeat, casting bloody light over the rain-slicked pavement. Inside, the bass thrummed deep enough to rattle bones, the air thick with s…

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Thanos 🇸🇪🇬🇷 @thanoska.bsky.social · 6d

Bones of Richdune Blaze

The driver, a wiry man with a sweat-stained hat, gripped the reins too tight, his knuckles white.

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#Action #Fiction #ThanosKalamidas #ShortStory #OldWest #Western #Sheriff

Pearl’s Star – Bones of Richdune Blaze

The sun hung low over Richdune, painting the dusty streets in hues of burnt orange and long shadows. Pearl “Whip” Vaughan leaned against the porch post of the sheriff’s office, her shar…

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