Collaborations from the Arkive
Stories and experiments born from the Arkive writing room
The Arkive keeps growing… We had to buy another shelf!
Note: These stories live on The Arkive (by Joakim Blytt). I’m collecting them here so you can jump in fast. Links go to his site.
I have been very fortunate to stumble into an awesome group of people on chat. What began as an effort to see what would happen spawned a fantastically silly tale. I think I can speak for the others when I say that we had a blast writing this piece together. With
Joakim Blytt
as our guide and ringleader, we have rendered a tale of absolutely ridiculous proportions, which should leave you giggling long after the final words have been read.
Please check out the writers who contributed to this masterpiece of mayhem and hit subscribe: Joakim Blytt, Marti Shovel, Casually Intense, Harshan, Liora Farkovitz & Liora Writes💜
…This wasn’t supposed to have a sequel. But what do you do when wildly creative people can’t tame the muse? Well, you roll with it! Peel Harder isn’t just about bananas, our gang discovers what’s lurking in the dreaded depths of the IBM and, possibly, the meaning of existence. Who knows? Go read and find out!
Please go take a look at the fantastic writers behind this mayhem and subscribe: Joakim Blytt, Ben Walter, Bear Sage, Harshan & Liora Writes💜
We swore it would stop at one. Then two. Split Happens is what happens when the chat refuses to behave. Mischief, sharp turns, zero brakes.
Don’t forget to check out our completely unhinged writers and subscribe: Joakim Blytt, Bear Sage, & Liora Writes💜
Our fun didn’t stop there! We jumped in an entirely new and surreal direction with this piece. Between Seconds is sharp and twisty, leaving you wondering what reality you’re in… and if you’ll ever find your way back.
I hope you subscribe to these writers, too: Joakim Blytt, Vedrana Jukicic, Bear Sage & Liora Writes💜
If Chapter 1 cracked reality, Chapter 2 shatters the glass.
Between Seconds: The Hinge takes us deeper into the shimmer — where echoes blur, shadows stretch, and choices fracture into something far stranger than time.
Once again, this wild experiment wouldn’t exist without the incredible voices of Joakim Blytt, Liora Farkovitz, Bear Sage & Liora Writes💜
✨ If the first chapters were the catalyst, Chapter III is the rupture.
Everything you thought you knew—every pattern, every echo, every fragile piece of reality—fractures. What slips through the cracks is stranger, darker, and closer than anyone imagined.
This chapter wouldn’t exist without the brilliant voices of Joakim Blytt, Bear Sage & Liora Writes💜
One devastating choice. One fracture too deep to undo. Will anything ever be the same again?
All made possible through the collaboration of Joakim Blytt, Bear Sage & Liora Writes 💜
The fire remembers.
The Gate stirs.
Everything is different now.
All made possible through the collaboration of Joakim Blytt, Bear Sage, Liora Farkovitz, Pamella Yates, and Liora Writes.
Our latest addition to the Arkive sings with shadows and breathes through glass. The Faceless Conductor is here… an eerie collaboration woven from many voices, stitched into one chilling refrain.
This harrowing journey couldn’t be possible without the haunting voices of Joakim Blytt, Bear Sage, Rowan Mercer & Liora Writes💜
The Arkive deepens with smoke and silence. The Notebook and the Pistol unfolds in a Buenos Aires tango hall where secrets are traded like currency, and one dance changes everything.
This one came alive through the voices of Joakim Blytt, Bear Sage, David Rizzo, Words She Keeps & Liora Writes, spun together in shadow and ink. 💜
The Arkive hums with damp pages and shifting corridors. Into the Arkive pulls us past the shelves into something stranger — a place where edits bleed, margins breathe, and the story writes back.
This one rose through the hands of Joakim Blytt, Bear Sage, Rowan Mercer, and Liora Writes — each voice pressed into the paper, each line dragging us deeper into the dark.
Some transmissions don’t arrive by intention — they arrive because they refuse not to.
Episode 1: Welcome to Stillwater opens the door to the Arkive with a voice caught between frequencies, stitching together the town’s first warnings, first echoes, and first impossible truths.
This entry lays the foundation of the world: the hum, the fog, the booth, the square — all the places where Stillwater keeps its secrets breathing.
As always, this collaborative experiment wouldn’t exist without the imaginations shaping it: Joakim Blytt, Bear Sage, Rowan Mercer & Liora Writes.
👉Curious to know what happens next? Check back soon! There are more adventures coming, in the works now!
Want the next chapters? Subscribe to The Arkive—that’s where they publish first. I’ll post updates here in Collaborations when new writings drop!
The Arkive shelves are always open. I collect these collaborations here so you can explore them all in one place.
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