Religious-themes Stories

Horror drabble, one-shots, short stories, and poetry. Delves deeply into religious themes and old folklore/fairy tales I loved as a child. Intensely psychological, and deeply personal in some aspects. I offer trigger warnings at the beginning of each story in case some of the stories contain things some readers would like to avoid.

This is a collection of short stories which I'm currently putting together to explore a cosmic horror setting that's been ruminating in my mind for a long time. The Panopticon of Babel has heavy Catholicism references and is primarily written in the first person. I will also note that I (the author) am fairly new to sharing my writing online and am currently an engineering student so updates may be few and far between. I will try and get chapters out in a somewhat timely manner, but no promises.

Being a kid with little to no family and being forced into cult like preferences isn't a life everybody wants. Sadly, Marington's stuck with it. His whole story is hard to explain but, this is what happens when you have a kid as a teen and abandon it to save your own reputation. His only companions being his cat, Annie and his cute little bat plushie, Maurice. He lives with Cidar and their friend, who he doesn't relatively like.

If you read one thing from me in your whole life, please don't let it be this. This was a rough draft for a class, and my first written work of such a magnitude (other than perhaps some interactive fiction, which was better). I tried to handle it as a short story, and honestly it fails in that criteria. I've added chapters and some revisions to make it less odious. There is improvement throughout the novella, though there are also really obvious errors I haven't bothered to correct and wouldn't make nowadays. Supernatural-twinged cyberpunk action-adventure novella with a mystical-religious overtone. Dates back to February 2013. This is from a while back, and I was more into writing action than writing deeper more philosophical stuff. Not that it didn't try. Had to write it for a class, but I really did enjoy doing it at the time. Although it aimed to just be urban fantasy, the successor was set in one of my overarching settings I worked on for years. The instructor told me at the end of class that "You will make a great teacher, you give excellent feedback." Just be forewarned: this novella is a rough draft for a final draft damned by faint praise.