Mark Stigers

Joined June 2021

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One year after my birth sputnik was launched, making me a space child. I did a hitch in the Navy as a electronics tech. I worked for Hughes Aircraft Company for quite a while. I currently live in the Saguaro forest in Tucson Arizona

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The Electronic Church
⸻ Father Clement’s Arrival The RV came slow down Main Street, white paint and faded gold lettering catching the afternoon light: Saint Gabriel’s Remote Ministry — Faith on the Move. The generator rattled, coughing a thin blue smoke.
By Mark Stigers 6 months ago in Chapters
The Book
The Book ⸻ The Starlight Diner — Grace POV Dawson finally leaned back, his eyes narrowing just a fraction. “What do you even do, Grace? For work.”
By Mark Stigers 6 months ago in Chapters
Time to Go
⸻ The Deer and the Road — Full Moon Night — The deer’s hooves hammered the frost-hardened ground ahead of her. Grace in wolf form breath steamed in ragged bursts, every muscle wired to the chase.
By Mark Stigers 6 months ago in Chapters
Blood in the Pines. Content Warning.
Blood in the Pines The trail was old but steady—just enough pawprints pressed into the damp earth for Pete to keep going. He’d been tracking since dawn, keeping his rifle low and his thoughts quieter than the wind.
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Chapters
The Silver Lance. Content Warning.
The Moon Flower — Moonlit Conversation, in Wolf-form — The air was thick with pine sap and wolf sweat from running free.
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Chapters
The Bull. Content Warning.
“The Bull” *~ Game Warden Pete POV* The bull was spread open like a book. Ribs cracked wide, steam still lifting off the torn muscle. Flies already circling, fat and slow in the morning heat.
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Chapters
States of Grace
The cursor blinked on Grace’s monitor, steady, smug, like it had all the time in the world. She scrolled back up through the fifty-page document she’d been assigned that morning: “User Installation and Configuration Guidelines for the QuantumNet v4.2 Modular Router System.” Every line was a battlefield of passive voice and jargon.
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Chapters
Logan
A silver moon slices through skeletal branches. The night air is heavy and still — but something shifts on the dusty forest floor.
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Horror
A Pair of Bear
⸻ As cataloged by Yarcs Lluks Tim found it balled up in wax paper, deep in a crate labeled “CAMP: ROUGH RIDER, DO NOT OPEN.” The paw was matted, claw tips dulled, but unmistakable: bear.
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Chapters
Double A Higher power
⸻ Yarcs: (low, wistful tone) “Janis had her harpoon — shiny, sharp, full of promises that fizzled into the void. Me? I got AA—not the group. Not heroin, baby. Hydrogen, alkaline, maybe a touch of lithium if I’m lucky.
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Chapters
The Chain of Tituba
Ah. You’re back. Good. I have something to show you. No, don’t touch that. Or that. Especially not the jar labeled “cranial regret.”
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Chapters
A Victim Impact Statement
My Victim Impact Statement to Mr. Kohlberger Yes, you impacted me. You make me feel so sick. But I have come to see That this is part of your twisted trick.
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Poets

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The Electronic Church

The Book

Time to Go

Blood in the Pines. Content Warning.

The Silver Lance. Content Warning.

The Bull. Content Warning.

States of Grace

Logan

A Pair of Bear

Double A Higher power

The Chain of Tituba

A Victim Impact Statement

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