VOLTA
Unexpectedly and with a tremendous peal, the bomb had detonated along a teeming promenade café. The dense column of smoke sprawled high into the evening sky—some great blossoming on this cruel April day...
Short Stories
MUD
A darkened gradient stretched across the sky on this innumerable day. The whistle reverberated throughout the network of trenches; its tinny resolve linked other whistles in an invisible, yet audible web...
SILVER AND COAL
At Noon on the 23rd of April in the Year 1778, the American Sloop-of-War, the Ranger, sailed into the Soloway Firth, riding uneasily at Anchor off St. Mary's Isle—a peninsula and the Ancient seat of the Douglas family, its sole inhabitants...
About
Eclectic is a small, one-man operation; a publication that does not fear delving into topics that may seem entirely adverse to one another. Yet, our slogan remains:
One Thing Leads to Another. Everything is Connected.
Eclectic yearns to be the home of the neglected and archaic, favoring the labyrinthine, obsessive, and even grotesque or avant-garde. We find interest in the gritty, the unknown, the unknowable.
Eclectic is the primary home of Ward Henderson’s (founder and editor-in-chief) short fiction and novel excerpts, with the occasional exploration into the realm of non-fiction on topics relating to cultural critique, lay philosophy, and other academic/journalistic adjacent subjects.
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