Addison Horner
Bio
I love fantasy epics, action thrillers, and those blurbs about farmers on boxes of organic mac and cheese. MARROW AND SOUL (YA fantasy) available February 5, 2024.
Achievements (8)
Stories (47/0)
- Top Story - December 2022
Cold SoulTop Story - December 2022
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. The glimpse was all Crystal remembered from her childhood, but she held that single frame of memory in her soul like a solitary ember cast from the hearth.
By Addison Hornerabout a year ago in Fiction
The Last Subroutine
DRAGON searches for a way to die. He soars above the Titanium Forest, a ruined collection of skyscrapers and roads and human debris that had once been a city. Wild wheatgrass sprouts from every crevice in concrete and metal, climbing the towers inch by inch on its way to reclaim the realm of sky that once belonged to ancient trees.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Fiction
Intimacy
Maxine wouldn’t settle down. She started with a gruff little yap just before six o’clock, after Riley got home from the office but before he turned on the shower. She growled in short bursts while Ana frantically chopped carrots and onions to throw in the pressure cooker. After the Holloways rang the doorbell, she whined and howled and snapped with barely a breath through dinner, the kitchen table board games, and into the post-dinner wine selection.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Horror
- Runner-Up in New Worlds Challenge
EleisonRunner-Up in New Worlds Challenge
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But Mother swore by the songs of the stars. Planets and moons and even the meteors sing to us, if only we have the ears to listen, but the stars own the grandest voices and the sweetest stories. I always thought it was nonsense until the day I took my first spacewalk.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Fiction
Drifter
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. They, the progenitors of our journey into the stars, and the harbingers of our near annihilation. They were brazen fools who knew nothing of the cosmos. I will ensure their mistakes never happened. I will stop them from destroying themselves.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Fiction
Trying to Reach You
The ringing in your ears is so subtle, so persistent, so rhythmic that you must be imagining it. But as you wake, your body sprawled carelessly on a triple-seat subway bench, the ringing is the only thing that seems real. You don’t live in a big city. You don’t take the subway. You have a ringing in your ears. These are truths.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Fiction
- Top Story - July 2022
Three StopsTop Story - July 2022
The first thing Arthur noticed was that his leg had stopped aching. A botched surgery nearly thirty years ago had left him with a twinge in his right knee that persisted every morning when he awoke. But now he felt only smooth leather seats and a thin carpet under his bare feet. The pain was gone.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Fiction
- Runner-Up in The Runaway Train Challenge
SouthboundRunner-Up in The Runaway Train Challenge
Jacob wakes up with his face pressed against plush seats and his feet suspended in midair. His stomach lurches as his body struggles to find equilibrium. He rubs the gunk from his eyes and blinks away the heavy sleep that tugs at his thoughts. His bare feet brush against a metal rack set into the wall close to the ceiling – no, the floor –
By Addison Horner2 years ago in Fiction