ClippedScape - KQ Watson Writes
KQ Watson is the cyborg that you don’t take home to meet your parents. She looks innocuous and gentle, but there are oodles of satanic death metal songs continually playing in her head. Sometimes, when she’s all alone, she thinks back to some of her favourite episodes of Intervention and the best scenes from The People Under the Stairs.She writes because what else is she going to do, let’s be real here.One legged Canadian who likes The Dark Crystal more than she will ever like you.The characters in her head keep her sane.
Clipped ebook by KQ Watson
Heaven was perfect, until they came for his son.When angel engineer Zak's infant son is cast down for being born without wings, he faces Heaven's cruel mandate: forget, or fall.Clipped, Zak plummets to a broken Earth, where false prophets exploit the faithful, drug lords rule dead cities, and every truth comes with a price.Pursued by ruthless angel hunters through decaying urban wastelands and corrupted mega-churches, Zak uncovers a conspiracy that reaches from Earth's grimmest gutters to Heaven's highest chambers.What begins as a father's desperate search becomes a brutal quest for vengeance that will expose Heaven's most devastating lies... and make them remember his son's name.
Rating: Mature
Wordcount: 96,000
Content Warning: Religious trauma, blasphemy, high-control groups, violence, domestic violence, assault, miscarriage, right to choose, dead baby jokes, pee-pee jokes, vomit, foul language, death of a child, poverty, animal death, homophobia, gore, gun violence, depression, PTSD, Thoughts and Prayers, corpse tea parties, smoking, drinking in a social setting, needle-drug use, medical trauma, gluttony, pride, wrath, greed, envy, sloth and lust.
Wheelchair Seating for the Apocalypse
Content Info: This story contains depictions of gore and self-inflicted harm.The apocalypse is here, and I'm snug in my apartment with cookie dough and despair. The internet and television are dead and I'm stuck in a wheelchair while the world falls apart outside. I'm alone, I'm tired, and I'm calm. Time for a final meal.Wheelchair Seating for the Apocalypse is a story for all those who are tired of seeing the creepy kids, strong dudes and hot chicks populate every horror story. It is for the un-well human who is tired of being perceived as selfless and endlessly chipper because of their condition, as though we exist as an inspiration to others.Sometimes it's empowering to choose not to fight.Enjoy this short audio adaptation of Wheelchair Seating for the Apocalypse, Narrated by Leah Taylor of Zombie Book Club Podcast
Rating: Mature
Wordcount: 2,500
Content Warning: Zombies, gore, self-termination, call of the void.
An X of Y and Z: A Post-Apocalyptic Love Story
A post-apocalyptic Romeo and Juliette story filtered through gas masks and set in apocryphal suburbia, where everything is just a little bit wrong...The sky is on fire but Phrae has learned not to sweat the small stuff. The only thing Phrae cares about is getting past the wall and entering the perfect city of AsBest. Six years ago, he lost the best thing he'd ever known behind the wall, and he means to get it back.When a work program opens up, allowing entrance into AsBest, Phrae is first in line. He plays the role of good little worker bee, because what's the old saying? Fake it until you take it?Six years ago, Melody was sold to the creepy bird-masked healer of AsBest. Trapped in the revolving ivory tower at the centre of the metropolis, she is forced to sell parts of herself. Everything from her voice to her blood is packaged, commercialized and consumed by the rich. But Melody is not a little bird in a fragile cage, and she is determined to find a way out, even if it's on the end of a self-made noose.
Rating: Mature
Wordcount: 10k
Content Warning: Gore, unconventional prose, abuse, slavery, abuse of a rat, death, nuclear disaster.
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