Martin Cahill
Lightspeed
2018
ShortStory
Fantasy Apocalypse
7,012 words
details
To return to power, the godlike Hollow Ones recruit Spear to kill the Great Beasts that hold the laws of reality in place, and Hark to cook them so they can absorb their power. Only one remains before the end of the world as they know it.
Dark FantasyRedemptionPhilosophical
Content warnings 3
body-horrorgoreviolence
Martin Cahill
Reactor
2025
Novelette
Dark Fantasy
8,600 words
details
Barber Gio Monsargo has learned to stay quiet and keep his head down, offering shaves and haircuts, not political opinions. But when a high-ranking military official of the Empire begins visiting his shop, Gio finds himself tested in ways he could never imagine.
Secondary World FantasyColonialismDefiant
Content warnings 2
deathviolence
Martin Cahill
Lightspeed
2023
ShortStory
Fantasy
5,639 words
details
"Azahn had been the ninety-third Imperial Foresight to the Dynasty of Silken Flame for only three weeks when he was forcibly retired. His body had been blessed by the holy waters of the Sky-Vein River, and he had earned the named-blade Stalwart Thy Mind,...
Secondary World FantasyMentorshipHopeful
Content warnings 1
death-of-a-loved-one
Martin Cahill
Lightspeed
2026
details
Later, when the cameras were off and he was alone with his wife, hands still shaking from the cocktail of adrenaline, fear, shame, guilt, and vodka he’d been partaking of all day, he started to tell her the truth. Even then, he only spoke it in the dark,...
AI FictionArtificial IntelligenceRestrained Prose