Fair Game
A squad of soldiers is sent to investigate illegal research on the distant space station Phobos.
Open story page →The Archives, restored
Stories from strange worlds.
Speculative fiction, horror, fantasy, and recovered notes by J.B. Peacock—rebuilt for a new home on the web.
Selected works
From the shelves
Eight stories from the original Archives are being restored here with cleaner typography, permanent links, and a reading-focused layout.
Grim
Life gets strange in Ridgefield, Washington, when Bobby meets a ghostly black dog.
Open story page →The Phoenix
A writer is taken by the characters in his books, who try him for aiding the enemy. Only Tim, whose mind is tied to their universe, may be able to save them from destruction.
Open story page →Beyond the fiction
Notes from the archive
The original site also recorded lessons learned while building and troubleshooting web systems. Those pieces are being preserved as dated historical notes.
When a web server would not serve to the web
A recovered account of diagnosing a DNS mismatch between a registrar and a cloud-hosted server.
Read the note →