Worlds of Paul Jessup

You can’t beat free fiction! Here are some places online where you can snag a story or two of mine for free.

It’s a weird, bizarre. fun little 60’s style tube-punk story with a hefty dose of outer space, inner space and fightin’.
http://www.sensesfive.com/2009/06/07/heavens-fire-by-paul-jessup/

Is now live at Fantasy Magazine!  Check it out here:
http://www.darkfantasy.org/fantasy/?p=1507
For all sorts of weird piratey goodness. Here is an excerpt, to wet your appetite:
The candle in the sky warmed their skin, making their vellum bones all too crisp . These were the Water Colored Tropics, far south from the harsh and acrylic snowlands that her [...]

Yup, go check it out. This is one of my favorite articles I’ve written for them Basically, it’s an autobiographical splurging of my love for all things 8bit/16bit and RPG:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2008/20081201/0jessup-a.shtml
Ah, childhood.

I’ve decided to post a short story of mine for free online. This was originally published in Electric Velocipede 12, and is called The Alchemy of War. This story is the first part of the Silas Bay triptych, along with Ghosts We Have Become and The Sea of Dead Around Her. Involves a bombing of [...]

I’ve decided to post a short story of mine for free online. This was originally published in PostScripts issue 12, and is called Ghost Technology From the Sun. It was a very well received short story (was an Honorable Mention in the 2008 Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and had positive reviews). It is a [...]

And is guest edited by the always amazing, Jonathan Wood.  This one is based on the tarot, and has a short short by me in it called The Tower.  Its kind of based on two cards at once, the tower and the moon. It’s got some great fiction by some other cool authors, so you [...]

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A Word Without Ghosts
Language is haunted, controlling, transforming. By existing in the realm of language, you exist in the realm of symbols, in the realm of time beyond time. In the realm beyond words. A sister finds the ghost of a brother, a mother, and is almost turned into a bird.
From [...]

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Fingerbones Hung Like Mobiles
An eerie podcast about longing for the end and trying to escape your current situations. Sometimes you can’t move forward, you can’t move back, you just move onward, toward the abyss. Ghosts in mirrors, spirits of the forests and whispers from the grave.

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Philannion
Named after a Greek Vampire, this story takes place a few days after a death in the family. Father and son try to reconnect, and only end up pushing further apart as they follow their own obsessions. Each moment they are haunted by each other, and the geometry of their house.

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Apple Magick
A wry tale about the existence of elves and the ways of torturing them. Humorous, an absurdest anti-fantasy. This story was considered a Notable Story of 2007 by the StorySouth Million Writers Judges.