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Story

The Brown Dwarf Compendium was founded on short fiction which dealt in surrealism oriented genres like science fiction, fantasy, and magic realism.


Liberated Poem

by Simon Hodges

Prose poem featured in Arjuna's Octopus.


Lagging Hardon Collisions

by Simon Hodges

Satirical, journalistically styled short. Featured in Arjuna's Octopus.


Mandragora: Crystalline Clouds

by Devin Tanguay

On the edge of the Nemon forest is a bakery where Viola works with her grandmother. Their are legends of stange creatures that can only be seen in dreams and reflections. Viola comes know the difference between what's legend and what's real.


Purple Cliffbrake

by Devin Tanguay

There is a ghost town in Ontario, Canada called Khartum. Abandoned in 1948 there are still remains of the town that once was. Sarah and her mother Darlene live on a hobby farm next door. Sarah spends her time away from school exploring the edges of Khartum getting up to mischief that only she can understand.


Blue Magnet Storm

by Devin Tanguay

A drifter is passing through Toronto to repay a dept and is faced with coming to terms with it. He is faced with the very things that keep him drifting. There is a way about him so different that it effects people in a myriad of ways. He is hard to place and wherever he goes people assess him differently. In the place he finds most contemptible he finds inspiration enough to deliver him from isolation.


Mandragora: Erpland Part Two of Two

by Devin Tanguay

The Mayrif is a subterranean city and has the second largest Fairthell population in Mandragora. A citizen named Drave has just turned twenty one and without an accepted skill set is exiled to the outside- to the Elathan Jungle to fend for himself. He's always been different as he was born with synesthesia whereby sound has colour. He sets out to find his place in the world hoping to learn what is needed to be a valuable citizen.


The Human

by Christopher Risewick

A man begins a journal after four years in a strange state of isolation.


The River Part 2 of 2

by Christopher Risewick

The second half of a long story regarding two psychically bound individuals and the constant misfortune this uncanny link produces for them.


Mandragora: Reflections from the Firepool

by Devin Tanguay

Gavin awakes in a desolate scarified land without remembering anything. There are few choices for him to make and he fears that that which is most familiar is most disturbing. He discovers that he's not alone in the desolate landscape and struggles to make his own choices while trying to recover a semblance of home.


The River Part 1 of 2

by Christopher Risewick

The first half of a long story regarding two psychically bound individuals and the constant misfortune this uncanny link produces for them.


Mandragora: Wandering Portals

by Devin Tanguay

There are magnetic anomalies in the Nemon forest that have been resulting in inter-dimensional portals that are being manipulated by a strange race of beings. As a result of there meddling dimensions are colliding. Leiren is assigned to seek out these beings and stop them however there is a lot about them that he discovers he didn’t know and once he does it complicates his mission.


She Weaves Light

by Christopher Risewick

A young woman finds a girl in a park with an unusual talent for creating matter out of light.


Mandragora: The Librarian

by Devin Tanguay

On Ogma Island there is a place that is revered by the locals. For the ones chosen by chance they must leave their homes for many years so that they can study in this place from the very onset of their metamorphosis to become a librarian of repository experiences. Tayls is one of these children and finds himself engaging vicarious feelings that are more intense then even his revered education could ever have prepared him for.


Simon and the Chair

by Joel Brandt

Simon wishes he had a seat to sit on. The room he resides in doesn't provide anything that even partially resembles a seat. Simon wishes he had a chair.


Mandragora: Flire Garden

by Devin Tanguay

A Young women discovers that she must find the seeds of her favorite rare plants so that she may find their true magic.


Mandragora: Erpland Part One of Two

by Devin Tanguay

The Mayrif is a subterranean city and has the second largest Fairthell population in Mandragora. A citizen named Drave has just turned twenty one and without an accepted skill set is exiled to the outside- to the Elathan Jungle to fend for himself. He's always been different as he was born with synesthesia whereby sound has colour. He sets out to find his place in the world hoping to learn what is needed to be a valuable citizen.


Glinka

by Olexiy Koumpan

A young man is sent to the industrial ruin known as Glinka with a very unusual and specialized task.


Resonance

by Christopher Risewick

Sarah King engages in a series of brutally self-destructive experiments to attempt to contact entities that have occasionally appeared in her life.


Mandragora: Ler Sea (Rewritten)

by Devin Tanguay

The rainy season is most dangerous but that does not stop divers from seeking fortune beneath the waves of the Ler Sea. Beneath the waves there is much that is vaguely seen on the edge of distant darkeness. Some of these things are ancient creatures and some of them are the imagination.
This story is based on the account of a diver named Huan from Honduras.


Pastry Office Tea Break

by Simon Hodges

Gently satirical but with radical premise, the story describes the unfolding of Jane and Mary’s psychic reality.


Mandragora: The Pligriach

by Steven Baran

A tale of a mysterious remnant of an ancient people on the fringes of the Mandragora continent.


Six Calls

by Christopher Risewick

Ethan returns home to a series of bizarre, life changing phone calls.


Mandragora: Lonely Grove

by Devin Tanguay

The great planes were once part of the lush prairies but now much of it has been subjected to desertification from early settlers turning sod. Whats left is threatened by hydrogenation. As a result the wildlife has mutated larger then is sustainable. Even though the intended mutations are said by social engineers to feed more people, their have been circulatory problems in a neighboring community.


The Moot

by Steven Baran

An assassin of The Moot people faces the external challenges of the Pale-skinned and the internal challenges of The Hunger.


The King of Crows

by Christopher Risewick

The Williams family encounters one of the greatest horrors to have ever existed in the Bluebrush Forest in the guise of a man who takes guidance from the 'King of Crows'.


The Smart White Pipe

by Billy Wild

The dream-like tale of a misadventure with substance.


Together with the Cold Part Two of Two

by Devin Tanguay

Living in the city we're constantly brushing shoulders with strangers. Some of them we might get along with, but in the city snubbing one another is normal. Wherever people are interacting there is an exchange of energy and there are those who know how to give and take energy at will.


Together with the Cold Part One of Two

by Devin Tanguay

Living in the city we're constantly brushing shoulders with strangers. Some of them we might get along with, but in the city snubbing one another is normal. Wherever people are interacting there is an exchange of energy and there are those who know how to give and take energy at will.


Sister Eia

by Christopher Risewick

The tale of a series of supernatural events within and surrounding the mystical Trypitie Forest.


They

by Billy Wild

Pandora is chased by vague, nightmarish entities who constantly hint at their malicious intentions.


Mandragora: Iucharba Manor

by Christopher Risewick

An operative posing as a simple Energy Board agent unearths some unusual secrets in the manor atop Iucharba mountain.


Mandragora: Trees of Eternity

by Devin Tanguay

A great sickness finds it's way a small mountain village in Jungle. Their Shaman doesn't return from his journey to seek out a cure and so a young man whose wife has been afflicted takes up the task and discovers much more than he could have ever anticipated.


Ixatu

by Christopher Risewick

What happens when the living energy of a planet has nearly run its course?


Withdrawal

by Devin Tanguay

One man’s life is turning upside down and he becomes convinced that the banking system is not looking out for his best interests. He withdraws all of his money but compulsively worries about its safety.


Today was Monday

by Olexiy Koumpan

"How do we control our weakness? With what means?"


Der Töd und Das Mädchen

by Christopher Risewick

A young German girl challenges a strange figure to a fatal game of cards.


Mandragora: Ler Sea

by Devin Tanguay

The rainy season is most dangerous but that does not stop divers from seeking fortune beneath the waves of the Ler Sea. Beneath the waves there is much that is vaguely seen on the edge of distant darkeness. Some of these things are ancient creatures and some of them are the imagination.
This story is based on the account of a diver named Huan from Honduras.


Blue and Green

by Olexiy Koumpan

On the brink of life, a dying man rediscovers himself.


Ecua: Homesick

by Christopher Risewick

Bertrand's return journey, from Earth to his home planet of Ecua, has been dreamless up until the very last week of his journey...


Fear of the Dark

by Devin Tanguay

A day in a life of a child who develops a fear of the dark and a resentment for normality. He lives a life that seems foreign. Imagination calms his frayed nerves and engenders the unknown.


These Dreams...

by Olexiy Koumpan

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases"
- Carl Jung


Mandragora: Calyx Receptory

by Devin Tanguay

As a baby, Enki is kidnapped from his home and taken to an organic society known as the Calyx Receptory. Citizens have no concept of the outside world and from within every desire is satisfied. Enki's dreams of the outside compel him to escape.


The House

by Christopher Risewick

If you wander long enough, you'll find it: a place where material laws are in constant flux. Paul discovers a house with endlessly changing properties, and finds himself drawn through a journey of perceptual transformation.


Five After Eight

by Olexiy Koumpan

On one day, in one life, the world stands still...


Mousa

by Christopher Risewick

A typically dreary morning for an ill woman becomes a transcendent experience offering hope and foreboding.


Rain

by Devin Tanguay

Aristille is amongst the last of his creed within a lone human survivalist colony beneath the surface of Venus. Burrowing into the bowels of the planet in search for sustenance the unstable element 115 was discovered. It is a catalyst for time flux. On the cusp of humanity's demise, Aristille is driven to wade through madness to find his own serenity.


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Mandragora: An Introduction

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