Emporgestiegen aus den Tiefen eines Abgrunds, findet sich Sleepy Creepy in einer absolut fremden und feindlichen Welt wieder - dem Metallversum! Having risen from the depths of an abyss, Sleepy Creepy finds himself in a completely foreign and hostile world—the Metalverse! Sleepy Creepy entsteigt einem menschlichen Schädel aus Metall und findet sich in einer Welt wieder, die komplett aus Metall besteht: den Boden bilden teilweise verrostete Metallplatten, vor ihm fließt ein Fluss aus Metall, am Rand stehen Bäume aus Metall, und im Hintergrund prangt eine Kathedrale aus Metall. / Sleepy Creepy emerges from a human skull made of metal and finds himself in a world made entirely of metal: the ground is covered in partially rusted metal plates, a river of metal flows before him, metal trees stand at the edge, and a metal cathedral looms in the background.

In dieser Weiterentwicklung des ersten Bildes wird Sleepy Creepy von einer Armee mit Speeren bewaffneter, gepanzerter Skelettkrieger aus Metall angegriffen. Creepy geht zum Gegenangriff über und schleudert rote Energieblitze auf die Krieger. Wie wird der Kampf ausgehen? - Erfahre nächste Woche mehr, folge Sleepy Creepy! / In this sequel to the first image, Sleepy Creepy is attacked by an army of armored, metal skeleton warriors armed with spears. Creepy launches a counterattack, hurling red bolts of energy at the warriors. How will the battle end? - Find out more next week - follow Sleepy Creepy!

Episode 24
Folge #SleepyCreepy auf seiner Nightmare-Tour ins Metallversum!
#horrorart #aiart #VisualStorytelling #ShortHorror #darkfantasy #darkart #aistorytelling #generativeart #serializedfiction #creativecommunity #sleeppycreepy
Manche Albträume posten zurück!
🇬🇧 und Hintergrund im ALT-Text

A young woman washes clothes in a rough shared yard, wringing a dark soaked garment over a metal basin while water drips from the fabric. Her sleeves are pushed up and damp, her hair is coming loose around her face, and an older woman hangs laundry on lines behind her. Buckets, basins, muddy ground, and worn structures make the scene feel like a lived-in morning routine in a hard worker district.

There was beauty in the work.

By mid-morning,
her sleeves were wet,
her hair was falling loose again,
and the day was already in her hands.

The work was ordinary.
That did not make it small.

#originalstory #visualstorytelling #worldbuilding #writesky #serializedfiction

A shirtless laboring man stands in a rough timber yard with an axe beside a chopping block, split logs, and stacked wood at his feet. He looks up toward a small pigeon loft built above a weathered wooden-and-stone building, where a messenger bird is visible in the opening. The scene reads as hard manual work interrupted by the arrival of rare news in a small struggling settlement.

Many years had passed since a bird flew here.

Once the town had been thriving. Now only a few remained to rebuild it.
Before it even landed, he understood the weight of it.

Whatever had been sent,
his work would change.
His priorities would change.

#Originalstory #writesky #serializedfiction

On an old stone rooftop high in the city, an older dispatch operator prepares messenger birds for release from a practical communication post. Small folded message packets, compact tubes, and ties sit on a work surface nearby while several birds perch on rails, loft boxes, and crates. Weathered stone, rough brick, and low parapet walls frame the roof, with the city fading into haze beyond. The scene reads as a working dispatch point where word is being sent out across different routes.

Some would travel by flight.
Others would cross the land by different means,
and over very different distances.

This word had far to go.

The call had been issued.

#writesky #serializedfiction #originalstory #originalstory #digitalart

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#SerializedFiction #IndieAuthor #SpeculativeFiction #Fiction #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #AmWriting #NewChapter

Auf Abwegen - off the beaten track! Once upon a time in a desert - etwas tauchte auf und jemand verschwand. Wo wird Sleepy Creepy nächste Wochen auftauchen? Bleib dran! Ein menschlicher Schädel, dem eine ganze Armee bewaffneter Skelettkrieger entsteigt, vor einem leuchtenden Portal mitten in der Wüste. Im Hintergrund erhebt sich eine Bergkette. / A human skull from which an entire army of armed skeleton warriors emerges, in front of a glowing portal in the middle of the desert. A mountain range rises in the background. Episode 23 Follow #SleepyCreepy on his Nightmare Tour to Australia! Off the beaten track! Once upon a time in a desert—something appeared and someone disappeared. Where will Sleepy Creepy show up next week? Stay tuned!

Sleepy Creepy steht vor dem leuchtenden Portal inmitten der Wüste - wo wird er nächste Woche auftauchen? Bleib dran! Sleepy Creepy is standing in front of the glowing portal in the middle of the desert—where will he show up next week? Stay tuned!

Episode 23
Folge #SleepyCreepy auf seiner Nightmare-Tour nach Australien!
Auf Abwegen!
#horrorart #aiart #VisualStorytelling #ShortHorror #darkfantasy #darkart #aistorytelling #generativeart #serializedfiction #creativecommunity #sleeppycreepy
Manche Albträume posten zurück!
🇬🇧 + CN im ALT-Text

Nothing. No throne. No lightning. No choir. No pressure of holiness. Just a room. A big office with a desk that looked like it had never been sat at. The air didn’t smell like incense. It smelled like… nothing. Like the room had been sealed from time. Everything was pristine, but not in a polished, loved way. In a way that said: unused. The chair behind the desk looked like it had been waiting forever for someone to come back and make it matter. My throat tightened. My rage tried to become nausea. Bob stepped in first, like a person entering a hazardous space. I took one step into the room and felt the absence like weight. “This is it,” I whispered. Bob’s voice was barely audible. “Yes.” A small sound came from behind the desk. Not scary. A tiny rustle. Like paper. Like something small shifting where it shouldn’t. And then—slowly—something moved in the shadow beneath the desk. A pair of beady eyes blinked up at us. And a familiar, impossible voice—too small to contain the weight of what it was saying—said: “Oh. Uh.”

A bonus snippet from Chapter 14 Part 3 💙📚⚡🩸🪐

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#SerializedFiction #DarkComedy

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#SerializedFiction #IndieAuthor #SpeculativeFiction #Fiction #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #AmWriting #NewChapter

Eine atmosphärisch-düstere Szene an einem nebelverhangenen, ins Mondlicht getauchten See, wo Sleeppy Creepy diese Figuren trifft: Mo-Sin-A (魔神仔); das Mädchen in Rot (紅衣小女孩); die Geisterbraut (冥婚新娘); den Jiangshi (殭屍) und die Ertrunkene vom See. Manche Albträume posten zurück! / An atmospheric, gloomy scene at a foggy lake bathed in moonlight, where Sleeppy Creepy encounters these characters: Mo-Sin-A (魔神仔); the girl in red (紅衣小女孩); the ghost bride (冥婚新娘); the Jiangshi (殭屍) and the drowned woman from the lake. Some nightmares post back!

Episode 22 -
Folge #SleepyCreepy auf seiner Nightmare-Tour nach Taiwan!
#horrorart #aiart #VisualStorytelling #ShortHorror #darkfantasy #darkart #aistorytelling #generativeart #serializedfiction #creativecommunity #sleeppycreepy
Manche Albträume posten zurück!
Erklärungen und 🇬🇧 im ALT-Text.

What Kenji Kept The most difficult journey in this story is eight stairs long.

Part 9 is live: "What Kenji Kept"

The most difficult journey in this story is eight stairs long.

medium.com/@marusez/d57...

#WriteSky #Fiction #JapaneseCulture #SerializedFiction

Been away 10 days — gout knocked me down.
But The Invisible Mender isn't finished.
Parts 1-8 are on Medium. Four chapters to go.

Back to work.

#WriteSky #Fiction #SerializedFiction

A re-imagining of the myth-arc stories as comic book covers. The Fifth Flame Series...
#fiction #serializedfiction #IndieAuthor #WeirdFiction

It's Just Enough: Ch. 4 part 2 How does place impact the way we feel?

Ch. 4 now completely up and free. Feel free to start from the beginning.

#booksky #booksky💙📚 #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #bookrecommendation #serializedfiction #novel

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Jun-Young falls.
Cho recalculates.
Jia stands in the wreckage of her own family.

Power doesn’t vanish. It shifts.

It's my novel, Forged in Ancient Fire. And Chapter 75 – After the Fall is live.

open.substack.com/pub/forgedin...

#UrbanFantasy #SerializedFiction

Nach Sightseeing-Tour und Fotoshooting am Mae Nak Schrein in Bangkok, ist er mit fünf thailändischen Geistern verabredet: Mae Nak Phra Khanong, Krasue, Krahang, Phi Pop und Pret. / After a sightseeing tour and photo shoot at the Mae Nak Shrine in Bangkok, he has an appointment with five Thai spirits: Mae Nak Phra Khanong, Krasue, Krahang, Phi Pop, and Pret.

Die fünf thailändischen Geister Mae Nak Phra Khanong, Krasue, Krahang, Phi Pop und Pret in einer gruseligen Szene vor dem Vollmond, kurz vor dem Treffen mit Sleepy Creepy. / The five Thai ghosts Mae Nak Phra Khanong, Krasue, Krahang, Phi Pop, and Pret in a spooky scene in front of the full moon, shortly before meeting Sleepy Creepy.

Episode 21 -
Folge #SleepyCreepy auf seiner Nightmare-Tour in Asien -
Heute: Thailand
Sightseeing-Tour und Geister
#horrorart #aiart #VisualStorytelling #ShortHorror #darkfantasy #darkart #aistorytelling #generativeart #serializedfiction #creativecommunity #sleeppycreepy
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 im ALT-Text

The Apprentice Two people who have been looking at the world in the same way, without knowing it.

Part 8 is live: "The Apprentice"

Two cups of tea on a workbench. One empty, one half-full.
The silence between them is not empty either.

medium.com/@marusez/the...

#WriteSky #Fiction #JapaneseCulture #SerializedFiction

Invisible Mending The art of repairing things so the fix cannot be seen. But is invisible mending always the right approach?

Part 7 is live: "Invisible Mending"

A broken shelf. An open door. A village that makes room for a man learning to sit still.

You can't fix people, Taro. You can only sit with them.

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#WriteSky #Fiction #JapaneseCulture #SerializedFiction

The Weight of Seeing You can’t fix people, Taro. You can only sit with them.

Part 6 is live: "The Weight of Seeing"

A fox on a shrine gate points a man toward the only place
he doesn't want to go — back down the hill, into the rooms
where the damage lives.

medium.com/@marusez/the...

#WriteSky #Fiction #JapaneseCulture #SerializedFiction

Part 6 of The Invisible Mender drops tonight.

"You can't fix people, Taro. You can only sit with them."

Halfway through. The story turns here.

#WriteSky #Fiction #JapaneseCulture #SerializedFiction

Ch 3. The Transit The first steps in a new world.

Crushed Between

Chapter 3- The Transit.

Welcome to the Overworld, meet your goddesses of optimization and hyper identity.

#UrbanFantasy #SerializedFiction #WritingCommunity

open.substack.com/pub/crushedb...

Episode 20 - Folge Sleepy Creepy auf seiner Nightmare-Tour in Asien: Diese Woche in bester Gesellschaft mit ikonischen Horrorfiguren in China - eine sehr blutige Szene - featuring: Jiangshi (僵尸) – der hüpfende Vampir, Nü Gui (女鬼) – der rachsüchtige weibliche Geist, Gu (蠱) – das Kannibalen-Giftwesen, Heibai Wuchang (黑白无常) – die Schwarzen und Weißen Unbeständigen. Sleepy Creepy sitzt im Vordergrund und genießt die Show. Manche Albträume posten zurück! / Episode 20 - Follow Sleepy Creepy on his Nightmare Tour in Asia: This week, in the best company with iconic horror figures in China. Featuring: Jiangshi (僵尸) – The jumping vampire, Nü Gui (女鬼) – The vengeful female ghost, Gu (蠱) – The cannibal poison creature, Heibai Wuchang (黑白无常) – The Black and White Impermanents. Sleepy Creepy sits in the foreground and enjoys the show. Some nightmares post back!

Episode 20 -
Folge #SleepyCreepy auf seiner Tour in Asien: Diese Woche mit ikonischen Horrorfiguren in China.
#horrorart #aiart #VisualStorytelling #ShortHorror #darkfantasy #darkart #aistorytelling #generativeart #serializedfiction #creativecommunity

Manche Albträume posten zurück!
🇬🇧 + CN in ALT

The Brewer’s Daughter He did not mean for this. But intention does not undo consequence.

Part 5 is live: "The Brewer's Daughter"

What happens when everyone in the room sees through you at the same time?

medium.com/@marusez/the...

#WriteSky #Fiction #JapaneseCulture #SerializedFiction

Part 5 of The Invisible Mender drops tonight.

A man walks into a sake brewery to return a stolen cup.
The wind has other plans.

"A man who drops a chisel does not mean to gouge the wood.
The gouge does not care."

#WriteSky #Fiction #JapaneseCulture #SerializedFiction

Part 5 of The Invisible Mender drops tomorrow.

A man walks into a sake brewery to return a stolen cup.
The wind has other plans.

"A man who drops a chisel does not mean to gouge the wood. The gouge does not care."

#WriteSky #Fiction #JapaneseCulture #SerializedFiction

She hadn't asked a question yet but he felt judged. Categorized. Sorted.

John was used to that. Our jobs, our news, reels, all impose constant judgement.

This was different, refined, cutting through the bullshit.

#urbanfantasy #SerializedFiction #WritingCommunity

There is a specific kind of betrayal where the excuse builds itself in your mouth before you have decided to lie.

Each one a sacrifice to the gods.

You think it's your last, but it never is.

#UrbanFantasy #SerializedFiction #WritingCommunity

Ch 1. They Are Watching The gods are no longer sitting idle

Stories help build a shared interpretation of the world. Some of those stories are 1000s of years old.

Crushed Between is an attempt to create new modern mythology. Gods and goddesses of 2026

#UrbanFantasy #SerializedFiction #WritingCommunity

Ch. 1 below:

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Excited to join Blue Sky and share my modern serial fiction. Hopefully people will put words to the issues we all face in life with my stories.
#UrbanFantasy #SerializedFiction #WritingCommunity

Auf einem Tori vor dem Vollmond sitzend, trifft Sleepy Creepy fünf ikonische, unheimliche Horrorgestalten auf einer Brücke in Japan. Die Beschreibungen zu den einzelnen Figuren finden sich im Text auf der rechten Seite. / Sitting on a tori gate in front of the full moon, Sleepy Creepy encounters five iconic, eerie horror figures on a bridge in Japan. Descriptions of the individual characters can be found in the text on the right-hand side.

Die Beschreibungen zu den fünf Horrorgestalten, die Sleepy Creepy auf der Brücke vor dem Tori trifft. / Descriptions of the five horror figures Sleepy Creepy encounters on the bridge in front of the tori.

Episode 19 -
Folge #SleepyCreepy auf seiner Nightmare-Tour -
Diese Woche: Gipfeltreffen mit ikonischen, unheimlichen Horrorfiguren in Japan.
#horrorart #aiart #VisualStorytelling #ShortHorror #darkfantasy #darkart #aistorytelling #generativeart #serializedfiction #creativecommunity #sleeppycreepy

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#serializedfiction #HauntedHalloween #patreon #indieauthor