Deathmatch Quarterfinals Day One, A Recap: The Next Bloodbath Begins!
Deathmatch 2017 is off with a bang! The weekend’s electrifying lightning round has left the Deathmatch with eight excellent stories […]
TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
Poster Boy: Dril On Art, Philosophy, Life Beyond Twitter, All That Garbage
"People will beg for AI-free content like they do for water that isn’t tainted with lead. And when AI becomes synonymous with ‘Shit,’ it will die like every other Silicon Valley Clown Show and nobody will miss it."
Review: Nothing Without Us Too
With many of these speculative stories rooted in sci-fi, the line between reality and metaphor nearly disappears, playing with a reader’s inability to clearly differentiate between fact and fiction when it comes to the realities of disability.
Review: Beat The Rust
Life doesn’t unfold in a neat narrative, neither does Kelly Fruh's brief, deft, illustrated vignettes.
Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind
There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.
Call for Submissions: Urban Legends
Overview “Urban Legends” is a compilation zine about urban legends, local myths, and folklore. Share your writing or art that’s […]
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Stories Making Indie Fiction Great Again
Still shaking from last week’s -16 chill? Fear not! Broken Pencil’s Deathmatch 2017 has returned to electrify a freezing winter. […]
Deathmatch 2017 has begun!!
The Indie Writer’s Deathmatch Lightning Round has begun! 16 stories go head to head in a two-day all out […]
Welcome to the Future!
By Stuart Sherman Everyone you know is dead. All of their children and their children’s children are also dead. All […]
Phage Match
By Mitchell Toews Static…squelch…more tuning… “Welcome thrombosis, cirrhosis and seizure fans from across the country and in our ships at […]
Her Shadow’s Bones
By Kaitlin Tremblay Elizabeth didn’t know what she was doing, just that she couldn’t keep doing what she was now. […]
A Gun for Chekhov
By Wyatt McRae “It’s called an Obrez.” The garage is blistering. I’d ask to open a window, but then I […]
The Last Ragamok
By Steve Thornton I’m not crazy, but the Voices try to make me that way. I’ll be having a conversation […]
Sick To Death Of Stories
By P.D. Walter The black leather biker jacket had been a gift from his ex-wife, Josephine. She gave it to […]
Morse Code for Romantics
By Anne Baldo We were dressed to match the décor, pink peonies floating in glass bowls of water and gold […]
FATAL ERROR
By Paddy Scott 404: The page you are looking for, Chatbroad, cannot be found. If you believe you are receiving […]
A Night at the Fukhäus Archives
By Chaos McKenzie You’re on all fours, knees chaffing against the edge of the cot-bed, pressed against a corrugated wall, […]