THE SHORT OF IT
Pledge $1 a month and receive original weird fiction. Pledge $2 for delicious audio fiction.

THE LONG OF IT
Joshua Alan Doetsch is a sentient word virus spreading across the collective unconscious through the vector of human language. It has taken on many forms, from short stories to screenplays to tabletop roleplaying games. It spreads through print, digital, and audio mediums. It coalesced as the novel Strangeness in the Proportion, and shaped itself into an anthropomorphic guise as Lead Writer of Age of Conan and The Secret World. It is made of cuttlefish ink and earworm rhymes, and its fingernails are gleaming fountain pen nibs. You can help spread the infection. It’s already too late...

...or maybe I'm just a writer of weird fiction, video games, table-top roleplaying games. Once a month, I would like to tell you a story. You just have to invite me in.

Flash Fiction:
One dollar gets you a flash fiction story a month (usually 100 to 1,000 words).

There's a sleight-of-hand magic to pulling stories out of these little windows. Neil Gaiman's "Nicholas Was..." twists our holiday mythology in one hundred perfect words. HP Lovecraft's "Nyarlathotep" fathoms cosmic and apocalyptic depths in a mere 1,100 words. Flash fiction is great for experimentation and for inviting patrons to influence the story. And there's no upper word limit. If a story stubbornly decides to be longer, who am I to argue with it?

A Scrolling House of Oddities Built on Words:
One dollar gets you in! For me, storytelling is a dialogue -- back and forth. I am very social-media active. I interact a lot with readers of my writing and players of my games. Patreon seems ideal for me.

The patron-only posts will be our hangout. You'll help me decide what to write. We'll talk about my current projects, gaming, fountain pens, tarantula care, or anything else. This is your space -- a basement to jam with a musician -- a secret laboratory to mix chemicals with a mad scientist -- the tavern with a storyteller by the fireside.

STEP RIGHT UP!

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