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Addison Horner
Bio
I love fantasy epics, action thrillers, and those blurbs about farmers on boxes of organic mac and cheese. MARROW AND SOUL (YA fantasy) available February 5, 2024.
Achievements (8)
Stories (48/0)
What Writing a 100,000-Word Novel Taught Me. Top Story - December 2022.
THE END. Typing those two words in a Starbucks on December 22, 2022, lifted a burden from my shoulders. The story that latched onto my brain nearly two years ago finally had a home on my computer’s hard drive. Every character and every moment had been extracted from my gray matter and regurgitated in the form of a million messy keystrokes. That may sound gruesome, but writing is a violent art, and I emerged from battle that day sore, sweaty-fingered, and still alive.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Motivation
Cold Soul. Runner-Up in Behind the Last Window Challenge. Top Story - December 2022.
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. The glimpse was all Crystal remembered from her childhood, but she held that single frame of memory in her soul like a solitary ember cast from the hearth.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Fiction
The Last Subroutine
DRAGON searches for a way to die. He soars above the Titanium Forest, a ruined collection of skyscrapers and roads and human debris that had once been a city. Wild wheatgrass sprouts from every crevice in concrete and metal, climbing the towers inch by inch on its way to reclaim the realm of sky that once belonged to ancient trees.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Fiction
Intimacy
Maxine wouldn’t settle down. She started with a gruff little yap just before six o’clock, after Riley got home from the office but before he turned on the shower. She growled in short bursts while Ana frantically chopped carrots and onions to throw in the pressure cooker. After the Holloways rang the doorbell, she whined and howled and snapped with barely a breath through dinner, the kitchen table board games, and into the post-dinner wine selection.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Horror
Eleison. Runner-Up in New Worlds Challenge.
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But Mother swore by the songs of the stars. Planets and moons and even the meteors sing to us, if only we have the ears to listen, but the stars own the grandest voices and the sweetest stories. I always thought it was nonsense until the day I took my first spacewalk.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Fiction
Drifter
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. They, the progenitors of our journey into the stars, and the harbingers of our near annihilation. They were brazen fools who knew nothing of the cosmos. I will ensure their mistakes never happened. I will stop them from destroying themselves.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Fiction
Trying to Reach You
The ringing in your ears is so subtle, so persistent, so rhythmic that you must be imagining it. But as you wake, your body sprawled carelessly on a triple-seat subway bench, the ringing is the only thing that seems real. You don’t live in a big city. You don’t take the subway. You have a ringing in your ears. These are truths.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Fiction
Three Stops. Runner-Up in The Runaway Train Challenge. Top Story - July 2022.
The first thing Arthur noticed was that his leg had stopped aching. A botched surgery nearly thirty years ago had left him with a twinge in his right knee that persisted every morning when he awoke. But now he felt only smooth leather seats and a thin carpet under his bare feet. The pain was gone.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Fiction
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