Sci Fi Feature
The stone only shows you a few seconds at a time. It never shows you enough. It always shows you too much.
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Horror Feature
She tells him about the kids before they even leave the bar. He should have asked a lot more questions. Now the whole family is waiting to meet him.
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Mystery Feature
The sign says open 24 hours. Nobody ever mentions how long some customers have been staying.
Read the Story →A conversation with an indie comic creator on craft, hustle, and building worlds panel by panel.
Read the Interview →Behind the camera with a genre filmmaker: process, influences, and what scares the people who scare us.
Read the Interview →One writer, one deep dive: the stories, the influences, and where to read everything they've written.
Read the Feature →Past the demo reels and the doom threads: where AI genuinely fits in a working production pipeline today, and where it doesn't yet.
Read the Report →Not a eulogy, not a pep talk. An honest look at what's changing for working creatives, what isn't, and what's worth your time to learn.
Read the Essay →Every app you already pay for is adding AI. What the new features really do, what they cost, and which ones earn a place in your workflow.
Read the Roundup →Two paragraph verdict on the latest genre release. Spoiler-light, opinion-heavy.
New and overlooked fiction across all three SKERD genres, indie titles included.
Horror, sci-fi, and detective games worth your weekend, judged on story first.
A classic revisited: does it still hold up, or is it safely buried?
Indie spotlight: small studios doing big things with dread.
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