Other Tales 🗺
Though the bulk of our stories here on Talebones takes place on Ferris Island, occasionally we travel elsewhere!
NOTE: Some stories on the list will be from past paywalled seasons and therefore only accessible to members of the Talebones Council. These stories will be marked with a (P).
Published Books
As the tales on Talebones grow, some are gathered up into collections and stand-alone stories to be published in ebook and paperback format! Each book or short story collection can be found here on their own dedicated pages, along with information about how you can purchase the published versions:
The Shell Collection (2025) - uncanny short story collection
Imp (2025) - horror novella, ebook only
Flash Fiction
Stories under or around 2,000 words
The Wager - a young woman and a stranger end up on the same eerie poplar-lined road, but all she wants is for him to turn around
Kittens, Torches, and Quakes - a collection of five unsettling 100-word stories
these are mirrors - a short horror ditty about a disgraced gallery owner, an abandoned rest stop, and what we want to see when we look at art
Sap O’Lilly: Three Recollections - a reimagined folktale in three parts, as recounted by those who were there and remember it well
“The NuMystic Universe” - small stories inspired by creepypasta:
Hey Eye - a creepypasta-esque horror tale told in four forum posts
#sponsored - an urban legend told in forum posts
Hyperfocus - a forum-horror tale
YouLog - a digital holiday fable
Noomy™ - tech-based flash fiction
Short Fiction
Stories between 2,000 and 10,000 words
The Book - a vacationing black family in the 1950s, looking for a safe place to stay overnight, follows their guidebook to a mysterious house on a hill. (reprint from Mysterion Online)
Serials
Multi-part tales 10,000 words and over; only the first installment linked here
Smoke-Mouth (serial novella) - Jenny-Dog is just fine on her own. Jenny-Dog needs no one and no one needs her. Until a fool young stranger shows up, says she’s walking all the way to the crippled mountain—to Lawetlat’la, to Smoke-Mouth—and asks if Jenny wants to come along. Jenny doesn’t fancy their chances. After all, it’s over a hundred miles on a dangerous road through a once-modern region laid bare by quakes and crisis. There are many-eyed angels hovering in the summer sky, and hungry thieves lurking in the woods with violence in their hearts. But the mountain is calling. And when Smoke-Mouth calls, the dreamers reply.