Dan Stout
Noir with a twist of magic and a disco chaser.
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Dan Stout lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he writes about fever dreams and half-glimpsed shapes in the shadows. His prize-winning fiction draws on travels throughout Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Rim as well as an employment history spanning everything from subpoena server to assistant well driller. Dan's stories have appeared in publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Nature, and Intergalactic Medicine Show. He is the author of The Carter Archives, a series of noir fantasy novels from DAW Books. To say hello, visit him at www.DanStout.com.
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Titan's Day - Chapter 1
Published Feb 28, 2021 · 3,532 words (13 minutes) · 11 views
Fantasy Mystery Noir Post-Industrial Fantasy 1970s Disco Police procedural
First chapter excerpt from Titan's Day (2020, DAW Books). Paperback re-release in April, 2021!
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Titanshade - Chapter 1
Published Jun 27, 2019 · 2,862 words (11 minutes) · 1 like · 476 views
Fantasy Mystery Noir Post-Industrial Fantasy 1970s Disco Police procedural
An excerpt from Titanshade (DAW Books, 2019) a noir fantasy thriller set in an oil boomtown where magic is real, disco rules the radio, and good cops are hard to find.
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The Curious Case of Alpha-7 DE11
Published Feb 12, 2019 · 759 words (3 minutes) · 2 likes · 544 views
The transcript of a found voicemail, from a customer who is clearly unhappy with his latest batch of golems.
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The Memory of Elephants
Published Aug 24, 2018 · 1,040 words (4 minutes) · 2 likes · 549 views
Literary Fiction Love Memory Loss Alzheimer
Winner of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation 2016 Short Story Competition.
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Ceci in the Sky
Published Jul 27, 2018 · 996 words (4 minutes) · 1 like · 600 views
Today is Ceci's birthday! And so was yesterday. And the day before that, and the day before that...
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Grind my Bones, Scatter my Ashes: A Love Story
Published Jun 20, 2018 · 1,283 words (5 minutes) · 2 likes · 700 views
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Riding the Dragon
Published Apr 19, 2018 · 4,057 words (15 minutes) · 848 views
Fantasy Literary Fiction Addiction
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The Bulldog Ant is not a Team Player
Published Mar 31, 2018 · 2,365 words (9 minutes) · 813 views
The heist was a success. Now all Kit Rowland and her crew need to do is lay low and stay out of trouble. Should be simple...
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The Hula-Hoop Heart
Published Mar 17, 2018 · 2,942 words (11 minutes) · 750 views
A noir detective story set on the broken pavement of a middle-grade playground.
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