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…
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Eclectic is a small, one‑man operation; a publication that explores the chaotic interiors and forgotten frontiers of the human condition through fiction. Our slogan remains:
One Thing Leads to Another. Everything is Connected.
Eclectic prides itself on the neglected and archaic, favoring the labyrinthine, obsessive, grotesque, and avant‑garde in human expression. We find interest in the reading between the lines, picking through the grit of the unknown and the unknowable.
The primary home of Ward Henderson’s (founder and editor‑in‑chief) short fiction and miscellaneous writings.
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