Matthew J. Fromm

Joined May 2022

327 stories

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Full-time nerd, history enthusiast, and proprietor of arcane knowledge.

Here there be dragons, knights, castles, and quests (plus the occasional dose of absurdity).

I can be reached at [email protected]

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Volley and Thunder
“This is all wrong. Those hills don’t sit right with me. They seem alive,” Private Henry Rayment said, his eyes firmly down the shallow and shadowed valley before them.
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Fiction
Writer's Block
this idea sucks within, it's clear as summer on paper, it dies chase the feeling, find the voice if you do, readers rejoice
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Poets
Sing Sirens Sing
a strange book lies closed ecstasy of completion? or wonders yet found? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Poets
Who's The Fairest Of Them All
In art and in life Both frog and roach can become The fairest of all ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Poets
Open Oh Wretched Earth
The cannon's recoil shook the sand between the bags lining their earthworks. Again and again, the artillery batteries roared, pumping shell after shell filled with an arcane mixture of magnesium and sulfur into the once lush green Canadian hinterland. Rodney thought nothing could suffer the power they unleashed upon that forest.
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Fiction
Inclusion Eclipsed
“Even now, you deny us,” Calls of duty roared from necks scared by boot marks Lynched and torn from ancestral homes,
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Poets
Mirror, Mirror
Fogged over mirror Obscures the vanity and unveils character ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Poets
Blank Pages. Top Story - April 2024.
His parents old cuckoo clock chimed its ridiculous song. It had hung there since they closed the estate all those years ago, chiming away every hour on the hour.
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Fiction
Fermi Paradox
The rocket arched across the sky. Beyond the horizon’s curve, the railguns of the Athakanizi hummed the death march of the once system-spanning race. Singularity Unit 6X3 stood at its post, watching through electric eyes as the Athakanizi died beneath the shadow of a mushroom cloud.
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Fiction
Obelisks and Idols
Echoes of Gaia’s abstruse rituals Celestial bodies engaged in a cosmic waltz, as Lice-covered apes below Indulge newfound curiosity
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Poets
Of All The World's Magical Things
From beyond the hedges Come many magic personages Some fantastic Some mundane All unique In their own veins
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Poets
Dopey's Tale
“I tell ya, wasn’t right how he defiled her. She was pure as…” the dwarf said, slamming his mug down atop the dingy inn counter. “How I hope she still sleeps soundly, and he buggers off to his castle.”
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Fiction