Fiction
Short stories and serialized fiction from Lance Marwood and guest authors.
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Jun 1, 2026
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4 min read
Torturer // Part 3
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly literary newsletter. Another week, another instalment in my ongoing series about a freelance interrogator. This time he's sharing some insight on his trade, so you know, proceed with caution.
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May 25, 2026
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Torturer // Part 2
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly literary newsletter. Last week I shared the first part of my current project, Torturer. This week we're back with the next part, and it's your bog-standard workers lunch, just a trio of freelance torturers brown baggin' it, having some fun discourse in cheery environs. Hope you enjoy.
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May 11, 2026
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Torturer // Part 1
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly literary newsletter. This week I'm doing something completely different. For the first time, I'm sharing something that hasn't been already published to V13.net. Instead, I'm sharing my work in progress, my upcoming book, Torturer. Erin reminded me that Dickens used to serialize fiction, and Chris encouraged me to embrace it wholeheartedly. And so here we are, the first part of what is going to be the series of Torturer.
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May 4, 2026
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2 min read
Rosie
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly literary newsletter. This week I'm sharing a bit of flash fiction from another one of our writers, Michael Wilson. And I've also got the latest episode of my podcast MAKE // BREAK to share with you, this one with Mark Winters, a Texan aerospace engineer turned singer-songwriter.
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Apr 27, 2026
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3 min read
The Sculptor (feat. Trivium)
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly newsletter at the intersection of culture, literature, and meaning making. The last few weeks have been genuinely hellish on my end — thank you for your patience. This week's lead story is a horror short where a serial killer called The Sculptor turns song lyrics into death puzzles, and forces a metal frontman to solve them before someone he loves dies.
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Apr 6, 2026
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6 min read
Polite Conversation
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press’s weekly newsletter at the intersection of culture, literature, and meaning making. This week’s Lowkey Hellish features a short story I wrote years ago, and was the thing I wrote to bring myself out of the terror of moving across countries.
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Mar 23, 2026
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8 min read
Haunted Smoke
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press’s weekly newsletter at the intersection of culture, literature, and meaning making. This week’s Lowkey Hellish features a short story .
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Mar 9, 2026
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7 min read
Just Stick The Landing
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press’s weekly newsletter at the intersection of culture, literature, and meaning making. This week’s Lowkey Hellish lead story is a little different: instead of me taking the first swing, I’m opening the edition by spotlighting someone else’s work. Going forward, you’ll see more guest voices featured here: more outside minds, more distinct textures, more room for stories and essays that hit the Lowkey Hellish nerve from angles I can’t (and shouldn’t) try to replicate.
