stalecoffee
short fiction
Guests 9 min Mixed Use 10 min Two Hundred and Eleven 14 min Never Listen to Your Enemy 40 min The Last Bad One 1 hr 45
Medium/TikTok/YouTube/X

the menu Autumn 2026

  • Guests9 min A bar, a joke about the devil, and a man who has never once asked anybody for a drink.
  • Mixed Use10 min A dead woman who cannot get past the front door, and a tenant who stays up late enough to notice her.
  • Two Hundred and Eleven14 min Two kids, a supermarket wall, and a rotisserie chicken every day after school for two years.
  • Never Listen to Your Enemy40 min In a country where nobody can hold a look, a blacksmith's child learns not to blink.
  • The Last Bad One1 hr 45 The machines are four foot eight and they are worth money, and there are families in this city who take them apart for a living.

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Retired stories, and notes on how they got made, are on Medium. Anything else, TikTok, YouTube or X.

The website and the stories were made with Claude and ChatGPT. No substitutions.