Hertzan Chimera 2019 Short Stories #1: A FRIEND LIKE ME...

He sat down beside me. That day. Just a random fella. Big beard. Big coat. Asked me if I'd like to share his three cans of beer, he didn't call it that.

"Three into two won't go," I nearly said. Instead, I politely declined his offer of 'beverage' with a barely raised hand.

So he continued to drink. Sat next to me. He'd slurp on his cans. One and then the next. Wipe his beard with a greasy backhand, "I knew you once," he cracked open his final can of beer.

"Knew you once," he said again, hand to beard. Called me 'Captain'. It wasn't here, of course, he added with a sly look in his eye and a subtle shake of his head. It was some other place, he added, quite a long way away.  That was how he put it 'quite a long way away'. Then he left it like that, in the air, for a few shared moments. The Christchurch bells rang across town. The clouds moved slowly, in the sky.

I could smell his beery breath. It took me a while to realise he'd sidled up a little closer to me. Squinting right into my face, he was. His left eye screwed up into his cheek in a grotesque mask of analysis.

"Yup," he'd know that face anywhere. But he didn't say anything further. Got to his feet with a long groan like the years had truly taken their toll upon his body.

"I'll not tell anyone I've seen you," was his final parting shot. And then he was gone.

And I continued to sit there, underneath the Martyrs Monument in central Oxford, haunted by the knowledge that I'd just witnessed the passing of the Leviathan and I'd lived to tell the tale. For the moment, I was safe. But for how long?

The Adult Adventures of Eli-X - Chimera Johnson Severin - the lost stories

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Eli-X is the biggest porn star in the universe, 

nobody can stop him doing his sexy thaaang. 

Back in the day, writer Michael Cornwall Johnson and Hertzan Chimera started to write the sci-fi sex-horror FUCK STAR series together. Sporadically, writer Alex Severin joined the writing venture.

1: SILVERTEARS OFF THE SEX-EYE Hertzan Chimera & Michael Cornwall Johnson
2: THE BUTCHER OF BAKERLOO Hertzan Chimera & Michael Cornwall Johnson
3: THE CHASTISEMENT OF ELI-X Hertzan Chimera & Alex Severin
4: OEDIPUS-X Hertzan Chimera & Michael Cornwall Johnson
5: ELI-QUINCE AND SLICES OF MINCE Hertzan Chimera & Michael Cornwall Johnson
6: RAZORS OF THE LOST BITCH Hertzan Chimera & Michael Cornwall Johnson
7: MODIFACTUM ELI-X Hertzan Chimera & Alex Severin
8: THE IRON FARM Hertzan Chimera & Michael Cornwall Johnson
9: THE SCAR ON HIS MIND Hertzan Chimera & Michael Cornwall Johnson
10: PIE - THEY’RE SCREAMING FOR MY FUCKING PIE Hertzan Chimera & Alex Severin
11: MY, WHAT BIG EYES YOU HAVE, GRANDMA Hertzan Chimera and Michael Cornwall Johnson
12: BIG BANG GANG BANG Hertzan Chimera and Michael Cornwall Johnson and Alex Severin (the climactic story that never was)

These eleven stories were serialized on a now-defunct flash-based website dedicated to the aim of bringing literary-mind-sleaze to a wider online public. There were plans for a climactic twelfth story written by all three of us in collaboration to be titled Big Bang Gang Bang but we could never get it up, never quite came together. Never got done.

Today, these completed eleven stories are re-published for the first time in over ten years...

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Bizarre Books resurrects two Hertzan Chimera short stories

Bizarre Books' creative director Kyle Robertt has decided to resurrect ye olde Hertzan Chimera in his two new short story publications, god bless his little socky wocks.

CORPSEGRINDER: A SplatterPunk Anthology

From Bizarre Books:
Three short stories from Jax, Hertzan Chimera, and Crowerd Robinson bring back the Splatterpunk fiction movement in "CORPSEGRINDER: A SPLATTERPUNK ANTHOLOGY". Edited by Kyle Robertt, "Splatter Tales" author.

STRANGEWORLDS: An Anthology of Bizarre Fiction

From Bizarre Books:

STRANGEWORLDS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BIZARRE FICTION, collecting four bizarre out-of-this-world mindf**k stories that are sure to disturb and entrance you in a whole new breed of strange underground fiction. Authors include L. Joseph Shosty, Jeremy Russell, Joseph Bouthiette, Jr. and Hertzan Chimera, edited by "Splatter Tales" writer Kyle Robertt. Cover art by the great Justin McElroy.