Short - adjective. Having little length; not lengthy or drawn out; made briefer. [ Middle English, from Old English sceort; akin to Old High German scurz short, Old Norse skortr lack]
Fiction - noun. Something invented by the imagination or feigned; specifically : an invented story; fictitious literature; a work of fiction; especially :novel; a useful illusion or pretense; the action of feigning or of creating with the imagination. [Middle English ficcioun, from Middle French fiction, from Latin fiction-, fictio act of fashioning, fiction, from fingere to shape, fashion, feign; Greek teichos wall ]
You look at a collection of short stories. These seem to range from fantasy to horror.
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When Ser was in art school a bunch of people in the dorm watched this movie called Paris Is Burning, which was mainly about these old clubs in New York where people invented voguing and went about casting shade and reading people. Don't know if it's fair to say that movie inspired this story, as our recollection of the movie has faded, but it was definitely written at the time that movie was fresh in Seraph's memory. However, Beat isn't about clubs and voguing. It's a violent story entirely in the POV of a character who is being raped and beaten. So, not a happy reading experience, be warned.
In Fight, Seraph is attempting to write in a different "voice" and used the appropriate pseudonym Opium T. Smith (who is all over the web site and mainly a figment of Seraph's imagination.) This nearly stream of consciousness short describes Opium's role in the "Maze."
This very short story was written quite a while ago while Ser was aiming to get published in various horror magazines. She thought if she had a more masculine-sounding and gory story that would be good. This also has one of those sort of Twilight Zone or Outer Limits type endings.
This story was inspired by three things: 1) The Depeche Mode song Stripped 2) The Facade issue of The Sandman comic and 3) Anne Rice's Vampires. It is written under the pen name Amadeo Jewel, who is a character Seraph writes about.