Akis Linardos
Writer of dark things, AI scientist, maybe human. Welcome to his lair.
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writer, scientist, maybe human
Newsletters from the Past
Newsletters from the Past
Short Fiction (free online)
I march—we march the Mushroom street - Small Wonders (reprint)
I march—we march the Mushroom street - Small Wonders (reprint)
We know we’ve reached the right street by the Mushrooms squeezing from the sidewalks—a vaporous miasma surrounding spongy, yellow-nailed fingers like the gray hands of the dead seeking sunlight.
The Price of Moss - Apex Magazine
The Price of Moss - Apex Magazine
Day 1. Carbon Footprint offset: 0% Across the silver table, the Council of Three regards me with milky-white eyes and veins green...
Rerolling the Dice - Gamut
Rerolling the Dice - Gamut
There’s a saying that Death’s a gambler—one carrying no scythe, but a massive bowl full of thousand-sided dice he rolls every morning. In the Academy we know that’s not true. The true gambler is Life. Her bowl is larger, and every side of her dice has its own fringe nightmares…
The Womb of Kingsport – Cosmic Horror Monthly
The Womb of Kingsport – Cosmic Horror Monthly
The Shark Shack of Las Diablesses — Baffling Magazine
The Shark Shack of Las Diablesses — Baffling Magazine
by Akis Linardos "Her Momma named her Ayoola three hundred years ago..."
We All Become the Bedrock - Uncharted Magazine
We All Become the Bedrock - Uncharted Magazine
She was born in the Cave, emerged from the cocoon of shattered stalactites soaked in vestigial groundwater like all daughters before her. Her first name was Kori, her second, Mama, and now finally everyone calls her Yaya, the eldest. Even after so long, a sinful child whose hunger for adventure once lured her old family […]
What is Conjured Shall Vanish - Apex Magazine
What is Conjured Shall Vanish - Apex Magazine
The Alchemical Miracle of Shamra's Endless Beer - TTL
The Alchemical Miracle of Shamra's Endless Beer - TTL
Princess Carmin could taste the beer in the air. It cascaded off the balustrades from the floor above, into copper troughs that formed artificial rivers and fed gilded gutters that passed between t…
Daughter, Mother, Charcoal - Apex Magazine
Daughter, Mother, Charcoal - Apex Magazine
When I was a little girl, Mum would wrap potatoes in aluminum foil, then put them deep into the blazing hearth between the coals...
Welcome, Student, to Your Forever Class - ergot.
Welcome, Student, to Your Forever Class - ergot.
ergot. innovative horror
I Am Lightning, Flashing Through the Frozen Sand - Apparition Lit
I Am Lightning, Flashing Through the Frozen Sand - Apparition Lit
My Ship Remains - Radon Journal
My Ship Remains - Radon Journal
Akis is a writer of bizarre things, a biomedical AI scientist, and almost human. He’s also a Greek that hops across countries as his career and exploration urges demand. Find his fiction at Apex, Heartlines Spec, Apparition Lit, Gamut, and visit his lair for more: linktr.ee/akislinardos.
Trapped in This Body, I Wait for You - Heartlines Spec
Trapped in This Body, I Wait for You - Heartlines Spec
Poetry
Inside this Egg, We Roll Together - Strange Horizons
Inside this Egg, We Roll Together - Strange Horizons
I’ve witnessed many emerge like me, cradled in bubbles of their own
Seance of the Sun - Maudlin House
Seance of the Sun - Maudlin House
At the end of apex species's folly, there ticks a celestial clock that senses a planet burning *** The sun turns blue from the core like a godeye opening For once in history, all of mankind is in agreement: Nature, the true god was always overhead watching every day We betrayed divinity, the Sun Parents hurriedly hide children into caves Cold sunlight stiffens skin freezes pedals, slows time itself until the planet becomes a dollhouse *** In the dark quietude, there ticks again the celestial clock but in reverse *** Light grows brilliant, thawing ice children once planted in caves
Up His Arm Crawls a Tooth-sized Spider - Kaleidotrope
Up His Arm Crawls a Tooth-sized Spider - Kaleidotrope
We’d Stitch the Sky, We’d Snatch the Sea - Kaleidotrope
We’d Stitch the Sky, We’d Snatch the Sea - Kaleidotrope
I Stole His Face, His Guillotine - Star*Line
I Stole His Face, His Guillotine - Star*Line
Even in Fire, Desire Remains - Eye to the Telescope
Even in Fire, Desire Remains - Eye to the Telescope
Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
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