Short fiction
Small stories that didn't want to wait for a novel.
A shelf for flash fiction, one-offs, and stray ideas — the shorter work of Sebastian Shaw, alongside two longer serials still being written chapter by chapter.
Short fiction
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A crowd watches a man built from scrapyard parts fumble a card reader, and laughs. He never once looks up to notice.
82 min read
Number Forty-One
Maren left the university, the ethics committee, and civilisation behind. Alone in a decommissioned lighthouse, her research is finally starting to move.
4 min read
Threshold
A forgotten household god wakes to a kindergartner's offering of watermelon candy — and on one Tuesday, learns what a door is actually for.
9 min read
The longer works
Two serials in progress, each hosted on its own site and updated with new chapters over time.
About
Sebastian Shaw
I write in the gaps between two longer serials — Superman: Vanguard and Warden of Systems — where a smaller idea doesn't need a hundred chapters to say what it means. This is where those live.
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