C. M. Kosemen
Artist and Researcher
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Short Stories
This is a page of my short weird fiction stories. Check back often - new stories are being added every month or so.
Also see my Commonplace Book of Ideas for a list of interesting ideas and story outlines.
JERU
Originally published on Bogleech.com in 2017.
A strange triple suicide on the Bosporus leads a scholar of ancient curse tablets to an unsettling revelation.
Precursors
Originally published on Bogleech.com in 2018.
Adapted into audio reading by the Alt Shift ZZZ Youtube channel in 2021.
The builders of those houses in the Old Quarter – those two-storey, basalt-and-obsidian dwellings – were not human.
Decoys
Originally published on Bogleech.com in 2019 as "Cicadas".
An embassy worker encounters uncanny phenomena and human-mimicking entities while on duty in a developing country.
Turtle Man
Originally published on Bogleech.com in 2020.
Adapted into audio reading by the Alt Shift ZZZ Youtube channel in 2022.
The yürüks called it the Turtle Man, but their visitor was no turtle, and decidedly not a man.
The Lurker
Originally published as audio reading on the Alt Shift ZZZ Youtube channel in 2022.
The life and times of a post-human predator in the million-year-old city.
Towards an Alliance of Societies
Originally written as part of the collective world-building exercise held for the NATO 2099 comic book project in 2023.
The future history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is shaped not by fancy moon bases of new weapons, but by massive logistical and civic initiatives.
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