edited by Ziv Wities Content note (click for details) Content note: Grief, fraught family relationships, gaslighting. [user graciegirl2006!? is logged in] [Guide]Welcome to this interactive guide! I understand from your About Me profile that you have an issue with a brain that needs killing. I’m here to help! [graciegirl2006!?]I can’t believe I found this. [Guide]Actually, … Continue reading DP FICTION #111B: “How to Kill the Giant Living Brain You Found in Your Mother’s Basement After She Died: An Interactive Guide” by Alex Sobel
edited by David Steffen Six-Month Assessment on Miracle Fresh Submitted November 16th, 2028 By Genevieve Aranha, Chief Manager Introduction The Chief Manager requested this assessment to analyze the overall performance of Spirits & Co.’s leading product, the soft drink Miracle Fresh, as a follow-up to the findings presented in the three-month assessment (also included below). … Continue reading DP FICTION #110B: “Six-Month Assessment on Miracle Fresh” by Anne Liberton
All Diabolical Plots stories published in 2023. For our most recent stories, click here! Issue 106 – December 2023 “It Clings” by Hammond Diehl Of course a dybbuk is flat. Flat as a blini. All the easier for that damn ghost to slip under your collar. Of course a dybbuk is colorless. That’s why, when … Continue reading 2023 Stories
edited by Chelle Parker Content note (click for details) Content note: death of a child Do not distribute, the feds don’t take kindly to these handouts. INTRODUCTION Hey, kid. Ol’ Buddy here, your favourite underground, pamphlet-writing canuck. I hope, whoever and wherever you are, you’re well. Keep the generator full, the firewood chopped, and the … Continue reading DP FICTION #108A: “BUDDY RAYMOND’S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING” by Gillian Secord
written by David Steffen In 2023 Diabolical Plots published our second guest-edited themed issue, this time for the “Diabolical Thoughts” telepathy theme, guest-edited by assistant editor Ziv Wities. We have been publishing the annual Long List Anthology since 2015. In 2021 there was a hiccup in the schedule due to WorldCon timing that pushed that … Continue reading 2023 Retrospective and Award Eligibility
edited by David Steffen Content note (click for details) Content note: parental loss, wounds, face scars When the mediums arrive, I don’t notice their scars. It’s their machine that grabs my attention, all pointed glass bulbs, copper wires, and metal rods. Like a four-foot square vacuum tube radio. I rub the belt buckle hidden in … Continue reading DP Fiction #105: “In the Shelter of Ghosts” by Risa Wolf
edited by David Steffen Someone began sending hand-written spellcrafted postcards out of DC in July of 2024. Those postcards made the rounds for a good nine months, under the radar, scarcely observed. That was, until the rash of good health, the proliferation of wealth, and the sudden uptick in good living coupled with a grand … Continue reading DP Fiction #104: “Like Ladybugs, Bright Spots In Your Mailbox” by Marie Croke
In Loving Memory of Mikko SteffenBorn November 1, 2007Adopted May 24, 2008Died May 8, 2023 This is the story of a dog who has been a part of our family for fifteen years and connected all of the other dogs we’ve ever had. This is the story of a miracle dog who beat the odds … Continue reading In Loving Memory of Mikko Steffen
edited by David Steffen I’m seeing me in hospice. My mother. That me. No. She. I have to remember. She’s in hospice, and I’m her son. I’m a son going to see his dying mother. I can do this. It’s not so hard to pretend. There are others. They aren’t me. Every me is someone … Continue reading DP FICTION #103A: “Every Me Is Someone Else” by Andy Dibble
edited by Ziv Wities Diamondback v. Tunnelrat et. Axeteeth Parish Court of Quan, 3rd District Ignatious P. Fizzlewig, Esq. Presiding Cite as: Diamondback V. Tunnelrat, 245 3rdPar (1107) The case before us concerns questions of property, ownership, and personhood. It also concerns the sale of an ear. The plaintiff is one Mr. Trawler A. Diamondback, … Continue reading DP FICTION #99B: “Diamondback V. Tunnelrat” by Nick Thomas
