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Ficting

The Elite Package

A micro-creepy in 80 words

May 22, 2025 • Fallon Clark

A Handful o' One-Sentence Creepies

Speculative-horror stories so short you can read 'em on the shitter without guilt or risk of prolapse (IYKYK)

May 1, 2025 • Fallon Clark

Incineration Detail

Withers did not prefer the company of others. Instead, he begrudgingly volunteered to shovel alien softball stinkbugs into a giant furnace.

Apr 9, 2025 • Fallon Clark

An original fairytale retelling of Hansel and Gretel

Jan 9, 2025 • Fallon Clark

Charmed, I'm Sure

A speculative microfiction

Oct 11, 2024 • Fallon Clark

Reading

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Restoring human health is a matter of restoring planetary health while acknowledging that modern technologies and living standards have no place in the…

Aug 28, 2025 • Fallon Clark

That Kind of Mother, Dianetics, The Artist's Way, and Sure, I'll Join Your Cult - What Could Go Wrong with This Selection of Reading…

The back half of July got a little culty, not gonna lie.

Aug 4, 2025 • Fallon Clark

A mass book review of everything I've read so far in 2025 (because I slacked off)

I’m painfully behind on my book reviews, and there’s little reason for it except me. I’m the problem. It's been a busy year so far; what can I say?

Jul 16, 2025 • Fallon Clark

The Fourth Turning

How a prophetic book from 1997 shook my Crisis-Millennial core in the best and most optimistic way

Jun 4, 2025 • Fallon Clark

The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton, Ph.D

Allopathy denies energy medicine, but the Earth-bound energetic connection promotes and maintains human - and planetary - health

Mar 5, 2025 • Fallon Clark

Philosophizing

Lack of belief in the American Dream is psychologically disastrous

And it's high time we talk about it

Nov 30, 2025 • Fallon Clark

The Hobbyist VS The Professional

On creativity, career-building, toeing the waters gracefully, and knowing when to bow out to give someone else the spotlight

Oct 2, 2025 • Fallon Clark

Existential Fatigue and Seasons of Work

Freelancing full time is a practice of patience with oneself, one's family, and a world that is not always receptive to diversity and freedom and the…

Sep 22, 2025 • Fallon Clark

Do what you need to do while pursuing what makes your heart positively sing

Sixteen years later, I've come full circle and am back on the path I should have taken the first time.

Jul 1, 2025 • Fallon Clark

Anxious millennial artists will get their due

We are at a cultural crossroads, a battle between artificiality and reality — humanity — a moment that will define a generation.

Jun 25, 2025 • Fallon Clark

Listening

Returning to the early 2000s with The First Five

Back in spring 2022, I got a used drum pad and a pair of sticks for cheap. Now, I'm learning to play drums by listening to a handful of songs I'm still…

Jul 26, 2025 • Fallon Clark

It shouldn't be this difficult to find good tunes

It's the 25th anniversary of Poison The Well's seminal album, The Opposite of December, and I’m full of feelings

Apr 5, 2025 • Fallon Clark

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