We recently published a new short story from Kelly J. Burke, called First Cut is the Deepest. As a follow-up to the release, we caught up with Kelly to talk a bit about his inspiration, mythology, and the vision for his stories. What follows is an excerpt of the interview—this first part is focused specifically on …
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When imagining a dystopian world, we often picture a grim landscape—a society steeped in decay, ruled by faceless corporations, surveilled by an unblinking eye in the sky. Yet within these visions, something unexpected happens: humanity adapts. It doesn’t simply survive the dysfunction; it normalizes it, builds routines around it, and sometimes even finds reasons to …
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We recently published a new short story called Those Eyes and had a chance to talk with the author and one of Arkhelian’s newest contributing minds, Samuel C. Lacoste. In fact, our conversation with Sam went almost two hours! During that time we discussed cyberpunk, grimdark, his upcoming novel, and writing advice. What follows is …
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