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The Arch, the Centering, and the Keystone
A holiday fairytale
Inspired by the tradition of ghost stories for Christmas, and especially Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, this isn’t explicitly about any holiday, but The Arch, the Centering, and the Keystone still conveys a feel-good story with a whiff of magic.
Read more about the story here.
A Rejection
An “in-world” exchange between an alien exoarcheologist and a scientific publisher.
We’ve been debating the freedom of expression since at least John Milton’s Areopagitica, and we still haven’t stopped in GSY 3567. When an exoarcheologist makes an important but controversial conclusion, the resulting paper is rejected by a prominent journal in A Rejection, published in the Sci Phi Journal.
Read the story and the associated philosophy note at Sci Phi Journal.
Blood Magic
Follow the adventures of Kiluron and Doil in this Arthurian-inspired, alternative world fantasy series
The primedom of Merolate has enjoyed a period of stability under the rule of Prime Wezzix, but in a historically magical land, such stability does not come about on its own. Follow this fantasy saga of Merolate’s leadership as they struggle to maintain their nation amidst the powerful forces that are constantly at work around them. Now on the third and final season!
Charmers
A tale of luck, fortune, and what really matters.
Published in Elegant Literature’s “Gambler’s Grief” issue. When Nelo finds Ima, he tries to bring her into the fold of the Charmers. Whether their meeting was good luck or bad, neither can quite say for certain…
Read more about the story here.
Destiny of Kings
Juntan has no idea that he is the prophesied king of his land, and no witch can convince him otherwise…
Destinies abound in fantasy: you have a magic sword, a mysterious parentage, and a birthmark shaped like the continent, so you must be the child of prophecy! This stand-alone novella follows Juntan, said to be just such a child of prophecy. But there’s a problem: the only person who doesn’t believe in his destiny is himself.
Read more about how this story came to be here.
Dragon’s Hoard
Some dragons hoard gold or jewels, but Cognōscere hoards the greatest treasure: knowledge.
Rumors abound about Cognōscere’s vast library in Mount Bibliotheca, and Rivi is determined to prove they are true – by stealing from it. But no one should tamper with a dragon’s geas lightly.
Read more about how this story came to be in the author’s note and release post.
Executioner
What is an executioner unmasked?
In ancient times, executions were a public spectacle, and death was not the punishment meted out – it was just a byproduct. Behind every execution is an executioner, but always masked…
Read more about how this story came to be in the author’s note and release post.
Fo’Fonas
Fo’Fonas is currently an in-progress series. Lloyd Earickson finished the first draft of Verdon’s Tragedy, a stand-alone novel set in the same world, in spring 2022.
When Lomboc left his island home behind, he was just trying to find a direction for his life. He never expected that his path would take him from the Ligron Plaines to the mythical Forfas, much less whirl him up into a conflict set to shake the world to its foundations…
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The Grounds Warden
The first story ever published by IGC Publishing, The Grounds Warden will always have a special place here on the site.
The titular grounds warden tends an ancient castle for his unseen saviors. When a great beast assaults his home on one terrible night, he is ill-equipped to grasp the confrontation, for all is not as it seems…
Read more about how this story came to be here.
The Hunt
This story was inspired by a real dream Lloyd Earickson experienced, although many details have been changed in order to create a semi-cohesive story.
I’m blinking, and it’s light outside, light with the golden quality of a hot, early morning, filtered through tree leaves. It’s a light that I know well, from my youthful days in Scouts, and the air smells familiar, too. None of it should be there. For one thing, I knew it was supposed to be dark outside. I’d been tossing and turning for much of the night, too hot to sleep. With no air conditioning and temperatures barely getting to the seventies at night, there was little respite, and the usual escape of sleep was often elusive. Just a moment ago, I had checked the clock on the bedside table, careful not to wake my wife when I did so, and it had read 00:07, just after midnight, on September 4th. I know that time can be distorted by sleep, but I’m certain that I didn’t sleep straight through into this midmorning sunlight…
Read more about how this story came to be here.
In My Defense: My Role in Mr. Shortop’s Discoveries
A Jules Verne-style adventure story exploring ideas of first contact and scientific responsibility.
Mr. Vinalin, a cryptographer and linguist, writes a letter defending his involvement in a pivotal scientific expedition after its results in proving a fringe theory cause widespread unrest and shake civilization’s basic assumptions.
Read more about how this story came to be here.
A Meal to Live For
On Thursday, Death walks into a bar…
When Death becomes a customer at a generic suburban bar, the staff must decide what to serve him. But what do you serve an immortal being who has supped with emperors and queens?
Read more about how this story came to be here.
Nevia’s Curse
Another story exploring the idea of prophecy, and how sleeping nightmares sometimes become waking ones…
Nevia has the curse of prophecy. People call it a gift, but it is a curse, for whatever she sees must come true, and there is nothing that she can do to stop or alter that future. When she dreams of the end of the world, therefore, she knows that waking will bring no relief.
Read more about how this story came to be here.
Ship in a Bottle
First contact: the start of humanity’s greatest adventure, or a threat to our existence?
No one knows what it is – only that it’s alien. The question at hand is: what should we do with it?
Read more about how this story came to be here.
Zombies
This story was originally published with the title Halloween Special 2019, and can still be found under that name for its URL.
As a fungus spreads around the world that infects human brains and turns its victims into zombie-like creatures, an archeologist and his vampire assistant journey to an ancient temple in search of a solution.
Read more about how this story came to be here.
Until Death Do Us PArt
Nightmare monsters from the west, undead Greeks, and…it’s a romance?
Amby’s left everything behind to join a man she only knows by letter on the frontier. It’s a break from her old life, and she knows what’s behind her. She doesn’t know quite what’s ahead of her.
Read more about how this story came to be here.
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