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Short Story: Khalida
Khalida- Art by Curtis Craddock By Curtis Craddock It fell to Henry to clean out the old house and ready it for the estate sale. The...

Curtis Craddock
Dec 23, 202416 min read
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Cut to the Bone
by Curtis Craddock. All rights reserved. “Bigly Enterprises quarterly profits are up twelve percent this quarter,” said Mr. Bigly...

Curtis Craddock
Dec 16, 20244 min read
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Flash Fiction- The Archivist of All
by Curtis Craddock A vignette from the Hollow world Gunther found the Archivist of All in a solarium at the top of a half-mile high spire...

Curtis Craddock
Dec 8, 20243 min read
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Flash Fiction- The Mercy General
By Curtis Craddock Harry was a happy, rambunctious six-year old. Happy that is, until his kidneys failed. Harry had a disease that was...

Curtis Craddock
Dec 2, 20244 min read
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A Canker on the Bone: America’s Original Sin
By Curtis Craddock When Odoacer forced Romulus Augustulus to abdicate as Emperor of Rome, in 476 the Western Roman Empire had effectively...

Curtis Craddock
Nov 25, 20245 min read
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Fear Itself
By Curtis Craddock The good citizens of this country are right to be afraid for its future, for their future, and for their children’s...

Curtis Craddock
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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Flash Fiction-Semper Fi
By Curtis Craddock “Up, marine,” shouted the corpsman, lifting Rifleman George Grayson to his feet. He felt a bit fuzzy around the...

Curtis Craddock
Nov 18, 20245 min read
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Flash Fiction- The Midas Endgame
By Curtis Craddock "The program codenamed Midas is complete," said the A.I. in its deliberately monotonous voice. The Old Man had never...

Curtis Craddock
Nov 16, 20243 min read
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Revenge Served Cold
Jessup Hale has waited fifteen years for revenge, and time is running out

Curtis Craddock
Nov 13, 202417 min read
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Flash Fiction- The Last Eleph
by Curtis Craddock The freezer cabinet at the supermarket was almost empty, but Archie rescued a gallon of chocolate ice cream from the...

Curtis Craddock
Nov 11, 20245 min read
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Just Another Tool
by Curtis Craddock (03/18/2023) Artificial Intelligence in art is just another tool. People keep saying that as if “just a tool”...

Curtis Craddock
Mar 18, 20234 min read
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Armistice Day 2021
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns went silent across Europe, bringing the Great War to an official...

Curtis Craddock
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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The Power of Play in a Time of Fear
I've been a Science Fiction/ Fantasy Geek my whole life, and this year I was invited to attend the Denver Fan Expo as a guest author. Now...

Curtis Craddock
Nov 1, 20213 min read
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Writing Secrets Part 1: Why So Hard?
The only true secrets are the truths people are unwilling to believe. Writing is hard. The question is why, and is there anything that...

Curtis Craddock
Aug 19, 20204 min read
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Happy Bookday: The Last Uncharted Sky
Hello Everyone, It's my great pleasure to present to you the Last Uncharted Sky, the ultimate book in the Risen Kingdoms Series. ...

Curtis Craddock
Aug 11, 20201 min read
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Homo Sapiens Afigitís
I am. It’s the shortest grammatically complete sentence in the English language and also the shortest story. It’s really the root of all...

Curtis Craddock
Aug 10, 20204 min read
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Firehouse Fireside Chat
Hello friend and readers: Old Firehouse Books in Ft. Collins, CO has kindly agreed to host virtual event with yours truly in...

Curtis Craddock
Aug 6, 20203 min read
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Always Starting Over
It’s been a while since I had a functioning website. So I’m starting again, again. Not that I mind. The funny thing is, Starting over is...

Curtis Craddock
Aug 5, 20201 min read
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Welcome to The Beginning
Happy Bookday to me! August 29th 2017, An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors finally became officially available. It's been spotted in the...

Curtis Craddock
Aug 3, 20202 min read
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Book Drop
Hello everyone. Two of my good writer friends have books out today. Courtney Schafer puts her real-life mountain climbing expertise to...

Curtis Craddock
Aug 3, 20201 min read
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