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✳ INDEPENDENT FICTION FOR BEAUTIFULLY UNRULED IMAGINATIONSEST. AFTER DARK · VOL. 001
GUTTERLORE™
TUNING THE UNDERGROUND // OPEN ARCHIVE

FIND YOUR
FREQUENCY.

Weird tales, odd transmissions, fiction with a screw loose. Turn the dial. Fall down a rabbit hole.

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CAUTION:
STRANGE
SIGNAL
✳ THE STORY ARCHIVE

EVERYTHING THAT
CRAWLED OUT.

13 TRANSMISSIONS FOUND

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Short bursts or longer nights in the rabbit hole.

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Art for THE FALSE VOICE
✳ HORROR-ISHLONG STORY

THE FALSE VOICE

The city has started issuing emergency orders in borrowed voices. A radio engineer and a court transcriber discover what it costs to make a lie sound reassuring.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for THE LANTERN PARLIAMENT
✳ ODD FANTASYLONG STORY

THE LANTERN PARLIAMENT

Beneath the city, sentient lanterns vote on which memories deserve light. A reluctant clerk discovers a government that has been keeping the dark for itself.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for CITY OF BORROWED TOMORROWS
✳ SCI-FI STATICLONG STORY

CITY OF BORROWED TOMORROWS

A city finances guaranteed happiness by borrowing good tomorrows from its children. When a transit engineer finds her daughter's future on a loan statement, the first payment is already due.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for BLACKOUT RADIO
✳ DARK COMEDYLONG STORY

BLACKOUT RADIO

When the city goes dark, a pirate radio host discovers the power company has been charging citizens for every laugh. Tonight the bill comes due.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for ARCHIVE OF UNSAID THINGS
✳ URBAN WEIRDLONG STORY

ARCHIVE OF UNSAID THINGS

The city's underground archive stores sentences people never spoke. When the streets begin losing the word 'I,' a clerk finds her sister's unfinished confession.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for THE BOOK THAT FINISHED US
✳ ODD FANTASYLONG STORY

THE BOOK THAT FINISHED US

A bookseller discovers a manuscript that writes the endings of real people—until its final chapter begins rewriting the people who read it.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for NIGHT SHIFT AT THE WEATHER FACTORY
✳ SCI-FI STATICLONG STORY

NIGHT SHIFT AT THE WEATHER FACTORY

The city makes its own weather on the graveyard shift. A junior operator discovers the clear-sky policy is storing every unspoken storm beneath the streets.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for THE SEA BETWEEN APARTMENTS
✳ HORROR-ISHLONG STORY

THE SEA BETWEEN APARTMENTS

A tenant opens the wrong stairwell door and finds an ocean between floors. The building's vanished residents have been waiting for someone to carry their messages home.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for THE GLASS ORCHARD
✳ ODD FANTASYLONG STORY

THE GLASS ORCHARD

An apprentice in a city of glass trees discovers that the sweetest fruit is made from other people's forgotten grief, and the harvest is coming early.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for OUR LADY OF THE DEAD FREQUENCY
✳ HORROR-ISHLONG STORY

OUR LADY OF THE DEAD FREQUENCY

In a ruined radio cathedral, a caretaker learns that the voices arriving after midnight belong to futures that never happened.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for THE ATLAS OF UNBUILT STREETS
✳ URBAN WEIRDLONG STORY

THE ATLAS OF UNBUILT STREETS

An apprentice cartographer inherits an atlas of roads that were never built—and discovers the city is selling its citizens' futures one block at a time.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for THE SLEEP TAX
✳ SCI-FI STATICLONG STORY

THE SLEEP TAX

In a city where dreams are taxed by the minute, a night-shift auditor discovers the government's sleep ledger contains her brother's missing childhood.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
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