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Nine stories. Different wounds. Different doors.
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#horror #fantasy
Festival at the Clearwake
A folk horror tale of shared guilt, Pan’s Labyrinth meets The Witcher.
#fantasy
Priests and Poets
Mystical fantasy in the spirit of Name of the Rose, where prayer borders on violence.
#fantasy #romance #horror
Borders
A dark fantasy romance. Rebecca Yarros meets Robin Hobb.
#noir #crime #urban_fantasy
Immigrant
A Chandleresque noir set in the fantasy Soviet Republic.
#urban #horror
Night market
An urban horror about a woman who discovers the price of her own voice.
#horror #survival
ECHO-7
Paranormal survival horror in the far North.
#weird_fiction #post-human
Tuk-tuk
Weird fiction. Like Black Mirror, but without the cynicism.
#science_fiction #political
Bento is a witness to the war
Current political science fiction. Neutrality in war is also a choice.
#dark #mafia_romance #science_fiction
Anchor Casino
A cosmic dark mafia romance with an obsessive MMC.

What is Words & Scars?
Words & Scars is a small experimental publishing house
for dark fantasy, science fiction and literary horror.
Each story opens a different door into the same universe.
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Tell us which story stayed with you. Where you found resonance? Why it stuck with you? We read every note.