Clyde Verhine
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The Victor Lewis Files
Tales from the Void
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13 Stories of Darkness - Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
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Fragments from various recovered Field Journals of Victor Lewis
compiled, transcribed, and translated from variant dimensional timelines
Note from transcriber: Victor’s words gathered from different worlds or different timelines were not declarations. They were impressions---patterns left in the dust stirred by his passage, by his many passages. What you hold is not his confession. They are his residue.
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I’ve tried to trace the beginnings, but the circle has no clean entry point. Only recurrence. Only echo.
Sometimes I wake and remember names that don’t belong to me. Places I never stood. Hands I never held. But they know me just the same.
I’ve met myself more times than I can count. None of us agreed on what we did wrong. I've spoken to versions of me that never lived. I've killed others. I've tried to undo. None of it holds.
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I have learned this: the self is not fixed. It is porous. Memory molds, festers, reshapes. Time does not spiral upward---it digs. Downward. Like roots.
And beneath it all, there’s something waiting.
A voice. A hunger shaped like understanding. It doesn’t speak in words --- it speaks in recurrence. Bloody handprints on glass. Red flowers with teeth. Distorted reflections that did not copy me. The same phrase whispered across centuries like a prayer no one believes in anymore. I was trying to fix something --- but instead, I opened a door.
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The entries in this journal are not stories. They are proofs. Residues. Failed blueprints of a man trying to live and die in the right order.
Read them however you like. They’ll find you, eventually. The spores know your breath. The ants remember. The spiders look for their light.---And if I look close enough, I see other faces in the mirrors, watching, waiting.
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You’re holding files that were never meant to be opened. Read them if you dare. But know this, the moment you turn the first page, something begins to listen. ~V.L
The Victor Lewis Files
Tales from the Void
13 Stories of Darkness
- Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
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Table of Contents:
Eternal Sentinel
A brilliant but haunted scientist achieves immortality, only to unleash a sentient, fungal entity that reshapes the world into a decaying cathedral of his own forgotten memories.
Beneath The Red Earth
When a weathered farmer seeks shelter from a storm, he awakens an ancient, buried intelligence beneath the red Georgia clay---an insect memory older than man, and hungry to be remembered.
Crossroads
When a troubled teenager unearths a forgotten relic at a cursed crossroads, he awakens ancient powers buried in his blood---powers that blur the line between hero and monster, and demand a reckoning with the self he was never meant to remember.
Lethean Echo
A grieving man constructs a machine to resurrect the one who saved him, but each return unravels reality further---until memory, identity, and time collapse, and he must face the truth of what he’s really brought back.
Where Lanterns Burn
In a ruined world ruled by sentient spiders that feed on human fear, a desperate group discovers that salvation may lie in a sacrificial virus---one man’s memory-woven descent into the hive mind to unravel the web of a world that forgot how to die.
The Keres
Amid a battlefield scorched beyond time, a soul-harvesting entity known only as a Ker encounters a dying soldier who resists her hunger---and in that moment of defiance, awakens something ancient, buried, and almost human within the void.
Children of the Vacuum
A cynical space scavenger accidentally adopts a brood of abandoned android children---only to discover they are loyal, lethal, and building a doorway for something vast, hungry, and disturbingly paternal to enter the universe through him.
Maw of Time
When a reclusive historian uncovers an ancient spider that weaves time itself, he descends into a haunted house where memory is thread and regret is trap---only to discover that unraveling the web may cost him not just his past, but his identity.
Mycelium Dreaming
A scientist awakens aboard an abandoned medical ship infected with alien spores, only to discover he may have invited the entity inside---and that the only way to stop its spread might be to destroy the last thing still human in him.
Photosynthetic Silence
When Earth is quietly overtaken by a race of sentient plants seeking to end hunger and violence through absolute photosynthetic harmony, a lone botanist must decide whether to save humanity from extinction---or surrender to the terrible, tranquil beauty of an alien Eden.
Voidlings
When a disgraced physicist discovers flickering entities hidden in the ultraviolet spectrum---creatures that feed not on flesh, but on the slow radiation of human decay---he realizes too late that seeing them was never the danger… being seen was.
The Hollow Echo
When a reclusive man joins friends on a remote mountain hike, he discovers a forest that listens, remembers, and speaks in stolen voices---and as echoes become answers, he must confront the terrifying truth of what he's left behind, and what has taken his place.
Mishipeshu's Teeth
When an ancient river guardian awakens in response to mining desecration on sacred land, a retired folklorist must confront the bloody legacy of exploitation and make one final offering to appease the hunger that now sleeps beneath the Broad River---barely.
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