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Epidemonology

2013-05-10T06:30:42-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Supernatural
English, Rated: T
Supernatural/Suspense
Chapters: 16, Words: 53,459, Reviews: 5, Complete

Diseases are sentient, technology runs on voodoo, and half the planet is a radioactive wasteland. Nevertheless, Jason Carol and the other members of a supernatural CDC fight to keep their city safe and free from infectious demons.

Emilies

2013-01-28T08:19:32-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
Sci-Fi/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,520, Reviews: 1, Complete

She was presented to the Smiths on Solstice morning; shivering and wrapped in ribbons to hide her feeding ports.

The Education

2012-11-19T20:24:24-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
Sci-Fi/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,543, Reviews: 0, Complete

Our future is a very familiar place.

Visitors

2012-09-25T17:10:09-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,321, Reviews: 1, Complete

Perfection costs a pretty penny.

Filtering

2012-09-21T09:40:28-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
General/Sci-Fi
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,629, Reviews: 0, Complete

The purest form of history is the stories we tell to children.

Malus

2012-09-16T17:26:54-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fable
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,342, Reviews: 0, Complete

Garden of Eden, from a leafier perspective.

A Brief Interruption of Transit

2012-09-02T15:29:43-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
Sci-Fi/Family
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,276, Reviews: 0, Complete

Going cross-country in a world where physics is on hiatus. Scratchwrite.

The Show

2012-08-30T17:01:07-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Horror
English, Rated: M
Supernatural/Suspense
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,800, Reviews: 0, Complete

Wherein we make believe that we are the predators.

Her Him, His Her

2012-08-26T11:55:55-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 756, Reviews: 0, Complete

An aftermath to the apocalypse of self.

Amorah

2012-08-22T10:23:23-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Spiritual
English, Rated: T
General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,968, Reviews: 0, Complete

Llot's daughters, the angels, and tragedy. Heterodoxy.

Corvidae

2012-08-15T11:14:25-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
Sci-Fi/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,538, Reviews: 2, Complete

Meant as a writing exercise, and cribbing pretty heavily from a lot of influences, including a soft drink commercial, my friend SteelKitsune's as-yet-unpublished novel, and Warren Ellis' "Transmetropolitan."

And Then The Apple

2012-06-27T16:01:53-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
Sci-Fi/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 788, Reviews: 1, Complete

Our new gods will not be so kind.

Golem

2012-05-30T10:50:11-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Spiritual/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 960, Reviews: 2, Complete

Sons and fathers made of stone.

The Patriot

2012-05-23T05:40:24-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,564, Reviews: 1, Complete

Morality may be simpler than you think.

Sound and Fury

2012-04-21T14:03:18-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
Sci-Fi/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,415, Reviews: 2, Complete

The dead are a worthwhile industry.

Brothers

2011-10-28T16:37:56-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
General
English, Rated: T
Drama/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,284, Reviews: 0, Complete

A story in fits and starts.

A Farewell to Astrology

2011-08-09T12:50:16-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fable
English, Rated: K+
Drama/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 721, Reviews: 1, Complete

"Why do you think it is," asked the Head of Divinations, taking a careful sip of his latte "that no one wants to hear the future?"

Houseguest

2011-08-07T18:45:55-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Supernatural
English, Rated: T
Supernatural/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,917, Reviews: 2, Complete

An old man learns to speak up.

Two Worlds

2011-05-12T07:55:43-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
Drama/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,210, Reviews: 6, Complete

For every decision, you kill a future.

Things We Don't Talk About Anymore

2010-09-16T19:20:35-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
General
English, Rated: K
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,015, Reviews: 2, Complete

By Kaylee Winters, Age 7 and 3/4ths.

A Dustbin of the Soul

2010-09-16T19:18:32-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 6, Words: 882, Reviews: 27, Complete

Every writer has a wastebasket tucked in a corner of their mind. It contains the thoughts that never make it and the words that never manage to be spoken. Here are a few of my older poems, drawn from that wastebasket.

Afterglow

2010-09-16T07:55:07-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Supernatural
English, Rated: M
Drama/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 3,292, Reviews: 1, Complete

Death isn't so bad, apart from the total cessation of being.

Among the Lonely Rocks

2010-09-13T05:52:45-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Romance/Drama
Chapters: 4, Words: 6,293, Reviews: 1, Complete

Shipwreck, amnesia, and the little ways in which we fall apart.

Sunface

2010-08-31T23:28:16-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
General
English, Rated: T
General/Drama
Chapters: 2, Words: 1,050, Reviews: 1, Complete

Subjective is the new real. Experimental.

Silver And You

2010-07-03T14:10:18-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Supernatural
English, Rated: T
Supernatural/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 706, Reviews: 3, Complete

A little drabble about racism and chemistry.

The Night They Left The Oven On

2010-07-03T13:59:53-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,318, Reviews: 3, Complete

A look at quiet desperation.

Artifact

2010-06-20T12:24:33-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Supernatural
English, Rated: T
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,199, Reviews: 1, Complete

Quantum and heartbreak.

Cyst

2010-06-19T19:23:42-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
Sci-Fi
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,717, Reviews: 2, Complete

Nanotechnology and the changing nature of beauty.

A Stream of Ghosts

2010-06-05T10:46:45-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 14, Words: 4,249, Reviews: 8, Complete

They make for a most polite procession. This is my third collection of poetry, and it deals with the phantoms that remain after you defer a dream.

Heavy His Tread

2010-06-02T12:33:35-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
Sci-Fi/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,966, Reviews: 2, Complete

Asimov's laws can be quite unkind.

Copilot

2010-05-27T09:07:17-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: M
Sci-Fi/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,155, Reviews: 2, Complete

Truckers in space.

Permafrost

2010-05-11T10:01:03-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Drama
Chapters: 5, Words: 8,461, Reviews: 8, Complete

Yeah. Culture's tricky.

The Mimic Rout

2010-02-11T07:57:39-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Horror
English, Rated: M
Horror/Suspense
Chapters: 2, Words: 5,554, Reviews: 4, Complete

The play's the thing.

Drifter

2009-08-21T23:54:46-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Drama/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 3,029, Reviews: 1, Complete

This is actually classical fantasy. Can you tell?

Hoard

2009-07-26T20:26:34-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Humor
Chapters: 11, Words: 20,408, Reviews: 4, In-Progress

Dragons and offshore casinos. Sorcerers and suburbia. Tragedy and jackalopes. Opposites attract.

Prometheus misplaced

2009-06-15T08:54:55-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
Sci-Fi/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,986, Reviews: 7, Complete

Giving the average human time travel is a lot like dropping a small kid in a candy store with explicit orders not to touch anything.

Opera

2009-04-23T09:36:52-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
Sci-Fi/Drama
Chapters: 2, Words: 4,893, Reviews: 2, Complete

A Frankenstein story about robotics and free will. Mary Shelley probably wouldn't approve, but Capcom might.

Railways

2009-04-21T10:41:23-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: T
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,037, Reviews: 10, Complete

The proposal to run a subway line through hell was first introduced in January by a tastefully dressed man with a clipboard, horn-rimmed glasses, and a triangular tail.

NDOGS

2009-04-02T20:12:34-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Supernatural
Chapters: 2, Words: 2,764, Reviews: 0, Complete

Who says you can't force a vision quest?

Winterbrake

2009-02-07T10:48:05-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Supernatural/Humor
Chapters: 4, Words: 7,293, Reviews: 5, Complete

She bought the cabin on an impulse during the summer, back when she truly believed that all she wanted to do was get away from the world and paint. Unfortunately, elves don't care much for artistic retreats and they have no respect at all for privacy.

Healing Hands

2009-02-01T20:16:06-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Supernatural/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,213, Reviews: 2, Complete

An investigation into whether immortality and compassion are mutually exclusive. Also an exorcism of sorts. That title has been fluttering around the dusty corners of my brain for far too long.

Lilly and the Troll

2008-12-18T12:45:21-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: K+
Supernatural/Fantasy
Chapters: 4, Words: 7,606, Reviews: 7, Complete

There is a 50% chance that this story contains a cross-dressing troll.

Beneath Smoked Glass

2008-12-11T11:36:47-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Supernatural
English, Rated: T
Supernatural/Mystery
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,384, Reviews: 6, Complete

They say the jar is full of voices...

Dig

2008-06-28T06:43:18-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Chapters: 5, Words: 14,254, Reviews: 10, In-Progress

An archaeological expedition departs from New Walpole University to study the ruins of Wheaton. It finds a little more than just dust and echoes. This is a post-apocalyptic Canterbury tale, with a cast of vampires, mutants, and timberwolf professors.

Adelaide and the Ghosts

2008-06-22T06:43:10-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Supernatural/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,517, Reviews: 9, Complete

The afterlife is a hassle.

Opening Winter's Box

2008-06-13T05:45:07-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
General
English, Rated: T
General/Romance
Chapters: 21, Words: 5,358, Reviews: 21, Complete

Pandora and I exchange Christmas presents sometimes. She sent me an apple of discord last year, and I gave her these.

Getting Heated

2008-05-03T04:32:23-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Sci-Fi
English, Rated: M
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Chapters: 5, Words: 6,909, Reviews: 12, Complete

Professor Edward Rasta is a wolf. He also teaches anthropology. These are the least of his problems.

Boggelmann

2008-04-27T09:17:33-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Horror
English, Rated: T
Horror/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 4,947, Reviews: 4, Complete

A shape in the closet. An arm under the bed. Some childish things are hard to leave behind.

The Beast In Ellison

2008-04-15T08:35:47-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Horror
English, Rated: M
Horror/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,259, Reviews: 4, Complete

Appropriately, this is a story about fear.

The Rose of Whitekeep

2008-03-31T09:25:37-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Romance/Fantasy
Chapters: 10, Words: 23,044, Reviews: 30, Complete

A very romantical story about elves and magic and teenage girls and dresses and castles and bandits and pastries and more elves. Also a satire. Penned with the express permission and encouragement of Sabrael. Nine out of ten fangirls approve.

Project: Bestiary

2008-03-31T08:56:52-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Adventure
Chapters: 6, Words: 13,420, Reviews: 37, Complete

This is a story about monsters, and the dark beyond the campfire. It's also an account of hope, desperation, and impossible odds. It tells of humans being who they are, and who circumstance forces them to be. Mostly, though, it's about monsters.

Faustus: Well, Not Exactly

2008-03-31T07:57:53-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Humor
Chapters: 10, Words: 13,684, Reviews: 50, Complete

A harmless little divine comedy about a king, a demon, and the strangeness of afterlives.

Ashes to Emily

2008-03-31T07:32:52-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,599, Reviews: 11, Complete

This is the story of a warm, heartfelt apocalypse.

A Scrapbook of Autumn

2008-03-27T07:37:15-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 42, Words: 9,422, Reviews: 108, Complete

30% poetry by volume. Natural and artificial flavors. Sodium benzoate added to preserve freshness.

Scheherazade

2008-03-14T19:07:39-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fable
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,450, Reviews: 14, Complete

She's her own work in progress.

I Do Believe In Faeries

2007-01-12T07:42:07-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Supernatural
English, Rated: T
Supernatural/Fantasy
Chapters: 5, Words: 8,174, Reviews: 25, Complete

This is a story about faeries, but without the usual wings, fluff, and sparkles. In fact, it's downright mundane. Perhaps this is an antifairytale.

Older Than Dead

2006-11-16T13:48:46-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Supernatural
English, Rated: T
Supernatural/Spiritual
Chapters: 5, Words: 4,018, Reviews: 14, Complete

This is a story about the parts of people that stick around. Ghosts, you might call them.

Hatchling

2006-11-12T09:23:08-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Supernatural
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Supernatural
Chapters: 4, Words: 2,578, Reviews: 20, Complete

For children, magic is a simple. Where adults need starstitched robes and glittery staves, all any child needs is a trip to the ocean. This is a story about that, and maybe a few other things.

The Only God on the Windowsill

2006-06-13T12:46:22-08:00

Author: Solemn Coyote
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Supernatural
Chapters: 6, Words: 7,648, Reviews: 41, Complete

There are stranger things than the intersection between man and myth. Fiction is one of them. This is a story - short, but not brief - about a lost girl, a homeless trickster God, and the boundary between reality and fantasy.