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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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✳ THE STORY ARCHIVE

EVERYTHING THAT
CRAWLED OUT.

28 TRANSMISSIONS FOUND

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Short bursts or longer nights in the rabbit hole.

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Art for THE BELLKEEPER'S INVENTORY
✳ ODD FANTASYLONG STORY

THE BELLKEEPER'S INVENTORY

Every bell below the tide holds one citizen's name. When the bellkeeper discovers her sister's bell has started ringing, the whole city's bargain comes due.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for THE MUSEUM OF LOST TUESDAYS
✳ ODD FANTASYSHORT STORY

THE MUSEUM OF LOST TUESDAYS

At a museum where missed weekdays are preserved under glass, a curator offers to return one lost afternoon—if you can explain why it mattered.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for THE LAST VOICE ON LINE SEVEN
✳ SCI-FI STATICSHORT STORY

THE LAST VOICE ON LINE SEVEN

A night operator receives a call from tomorrow. On the other end is the one person she's stopped believing she can save.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for EMERGENCY BROADCAST FOR MOTHS
✳ SCI-FI STATICSHORT STORY

EMERGENCY BROADCAST FOR MOTHS

An emergency broadcast reaches only the city's moths. When they begin spelling warnings against windows, a radio technician must decide who to believe.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for BREAK GLASS FOR TOMORROW
✳ OTHER FREQUENCYSHORT STORY

BREAK GLASS FOR TOMORROW

A street-corner cabinet contains exactly one tomorrow. Someone breaks it on a perfectly ordinary Tuesday.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for MOTH IN THE SWITCHBOARD
✳ ODD FANTASYSHORT STORY

MOTH IN THE SWITCHBOARD

The city's final telephone operator is a moth. She connects impossible callers by the light of things they miss.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for THE LAST WEATHER REPORT
✳ SCI-FI STATICSHORT STORY

THE LAST WEATHER REPORT

The sky has been blank for twenty years. Tonight a rookie forecaster receives a weather alert for a storm that already happened.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for PIGEON KING OF PLATFORM NINE
✳ DARK COMEDYSHORT STORY

PIGEON KING OF PLATFORM NINE

A pigeon wearing a crown delays the commuter train and announces a referendum. Voting is mandatory. Bread is legal tender.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for THE VENDING MACHINE WANTS TEETH
✳ HORROR-ISHSHORT STORY

THE VENDING MACHINE WANTS TEETH

At the station no train stops at, a vending machine offers memories in exchange for teeth. Tonight it wants a very particular one.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for THE VENDING MACHINE OF ALMOSTS
✳ URBAN WEIRDSHORT STORY

THE VENDING MACHINE OF ALMOSTS

Under the highway, a vending machine sells the versions of your life that nearly happened. The one you need costs more than money.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
Art for THE 11:59 LAUNDRY CLUB
✳ DARK COMEDYSHORT STORY

THE 11:59 LAUNDRY CLUB

At midnight, a laundromat washes things you can't put in a basket. The rinse cycle takes something unexpected.

BY GUTTERLORE STUDIO
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