~ announcing the launch of Supernal Stories: Volume II, my second collection of phantastical short fiction in the realms of fantasy x sci-fi x horror and more.
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Title: Supernal Stories
Form: Short story collection (Volume II) ~ 64K words / 23 stories = 2.8K avg words per story
Genre: Phantasy Fables x Weird Tales
Target Audience: Teen+ / for fans of The Twilight Zone and the short fiction of Bradbury and Kafka.
Pitch: *SUPERNAL STORIES* is a collection of stories about lives from beyond, strange souls & weird transformations, and the responsibility of existence.
Premises: Volume II — Investigate a corporate conspiracy with a detective android, play a poker game for your soul, delve a fantastique dream journal, embody a creepy cosmic entity, witness the ignition of an interplanetary war via Mars rover, experience the consciousness of a messianic figure, meet your doppelgänger on a forest path…
*SUPERNAL STORIES* comprise 7 volumes of inventively experimental short-form storytelling. There is a chronology of progress to this anthology of fiction written over seven years of worldly transformation (2017-2024). Genres presided include fantasy x sci-fi x horror and more. Themes presented include creation, identity, transformation, psychosis, ethereal mysteries, reality-blurring extrasensory perception, and the endless search for existential meaning. As the pages turn, concepts expand and visions illuminate; steadily, word by word, fresh universes and esoteric concepts shall be borne into the realms of your consciousness. These stories aim to detail the human condition from richly discerning angles and often feature supernatural twists.
~ Collecting Old Stories. In all, SUPERNAL STORIES are my volumes of stories past. I wrote short fiction on my blog Thresholds of Transformation from 2017-2024 and have re-revised these stories for collection into book volumes I plan to release from 2025-2026.
~ My Zones. These collections are wide-ranging and primarily inspired by what originally got me writing short fiction: The Twilight Zone. Fantasy x sci-fi x horror are on the menu; many stories are wandering and wondrous affairs and often feature satisfactorily weird twist endings. Some are plot heavy, others a kind of stream-of-consciousness psychic journey, and more than a few feature epic concepts.
~ Secret Origins. Altogether, SUPERNAL STORIES doubles as a platform to reveal my progression as a writer and in many ways represents the canvas on which I learned to write fiction. These concepts, characters, and stories would come to me and I’d do my best to bring their salacious seeds to flowery fruition. Alongside the organizing annals of a gigantic Trello board titled “Story Ideas” and filled with copious haphazard notes and glittering imagery, I churned out many. Most of the stories are under 3,000 words, though some stretch into rather epic adventures of 7K-15K words.
~ 7-7-7. Since these stories were penned over a period of 7 years, there shall be 7 volumes, each one containing stories from each of the 7 years.
~ Cover Concepts. For the covers, I am using public domain art by various favored legends, whom I shall credit with telling a visual story of their own across the seven volumes. // In the collection’s marketing and on my website, I include several alternates and master covers for the anthology as well. For me, these art pieces by Blake, Bosch, Friedrich, Martin, Paton, Raphael, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder help me to capture the sublime energy I am after with my phantasies.
*Supernal* defined: being or coming from on high; exalted, exquisite; superlatively good; celestial, heavenly.
Story Titles 🔖
Story Hooks🪝
Here are the story hooks for each of the tales included in Volume 2:
- Man on a late night stroll for a bottle of wine encounters a creature from another world.
- Follow a cosmic entity as it immerses itself in our environs.
- A selfless young woman traverses a post-apocalyptic city while dreaming up a way to save the transformed people.
- Tale from a mysterious, melancholy, and meaningful forest.
- Read an estranging journal of a dreamer descending into a byzantine fate.
- A young couple interdependently struggle with solitude and self-discovery.
- An atheist philosopher-scientist builds a device to put his mind into the past consciousness of Christ.
- A casual poker game soon becomes a diabolical trial for the soul.
- A sleeper cell awakens in a cabin in the Russian woods.
- An experienced sniper is haunted once more by their past while scoping in.
- An aging agent of mysterious forces is tasked with hijacking Air Force One.
- A metaphorical trial betwixt the Man in Black and Man in White.
- A woman attends therapy to discuss her dreams; her therapist works overtime.
- A strange man’s latest theory is a master theory about his past theories.
- A guy who hates music attends a concert for the sake of a girl.
- An artist experiences resurrection and realizes his next song may renew the world.
- A woman is protected from a nightmare by her cat.
- A woman experiences sudden future-sight in the forest.
- A master monster hunter writes an insightful blog post on his special art.
- A legendary, immortal detective for the first time aims to solve his own case.
- An ever-sprinting, super-human, post-apoc survivor goes between the zonewalls.
- A next gen rover on Mars sparks an interplanetary conflict.
- A pair of detectives, one human and one android, must work together to solve an intergalactic criminal conspiracy.
SUPERNAL STORIES = anthological literary thought experiments across time, space, and consciousness cast with introspective and sometimes maddened characters.
The book is available in print via Amazon & BN and ebook formats. 📙📗
Please enjoy Supernal Stories!
Godspeed,
Dylan Orosz
🔗Supernal Stories: Volume II — BUY NOW! (Print and Ebook)
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Previously: BOOK LAUNCH: Supernal Stories, Vol. I!
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