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Nov 7, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Stellar Rein: Ep. I - The Qualifier

Ibra and his mount Quetzle race against the clock in the Qualifier Round of a tournament on another world. Fully casted audio performance!

Jul 26, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Graveyard Shift #1

Officers Smith & McCready respond to a noise complaint from the local mausoleum.

Oct 23, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

An Elephant's Tale

Mythic Tales #1

Nov 6, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

The Watcher in the Woods

Cryptid Poetry #1: Sasquatch

Apr 22, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Most Popular

Stellar Rein: Ep. IV - Trial & Error

Feb 20 • Danny Maldonado

The Red Gaze of the Omen

Jun 25, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Get Your Haiku Trading Cards Here!

Jan 24 • Danny Maldonado

The Hunger of Gotham

Dec 11, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Sci-Fi

Stellar Rein: Ep. IV - Trial & Error

A STELLAR UNIVERSE SERIES

Feb 20 • Danny Maldonado

Tales from the Stellar Universe #2 - Bounty hunter Gideon Hale gets into a bar fight.

Nov 21, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

A Tale from the Stellar Universe - #1

Oct 17, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Stellar Rein: Ep. III - Wild Card

Ibra and his mount Quetzle race in a head-to-head race for a shot at a Wildcard position.

Oct 10, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Supernatural

Graveyard Shift #3

Property Dispute

Feb 7 • Danny Maldonado

The Hunger of Gotham

Urban Cosmic Horror

Dec 11, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Graveyard Shift #2

The Ferryman requires payment to grant passage to other side. But Slim, he’s a degenerate gambler, in life and in death.

Nov 1, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Graveyard Shift #1

Officers Smith & McCready respond to a noise complaint from the local mausoleum.

Oct 23, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Mythic

Serenade to the Lantern Bearer

Oh, Fair One! Who holds the lantern pointing the way — through the veil of fog to the bridge over the chasm of uncertainty, where the toll keeper waits…

Nov 25, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Language of the Reeds

Mythic Tales #2

Nov 14, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

An Elephant's Tale

Mythic Tales #1

Nov 6, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Urban Elsewhere

Apr 14, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Non-fiction

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This is the official debut of my trading card series.

Jan 24 • Danny Maldonado

A leap and a bound in my creativity

Jan 3 • Danny Maldonado

Santa is on the List

Dec 25, 2025

The Time I was Featured in The New Yorker

Three Teens Battle Smelly Trees

Dec 18, 2025 • Danny Maldonado

Recent posts

Get Your Haiku Trading Cards Here!

This is the official debut of my trading card series.

Jan 24 • Danny Maldonado

Divine Vacation

Collage by Celi He split the waters above from the waters below. On the seventh day, He rested. Did He choose a sandy beach or a snow capped mountain?

Apr 4 • Danny Maldonado

Just a Harlem Boy

I am not a formally educated man. I am just a Harlem boy, who dares to dream of a rooftop where I can reach, and touch a cloud that will lift me up and…

Mar 30 • Danny Maldonado

Scrolls and tomes pages and ink; we think — we can read because of graphite. Chopped and chipped washed and rinsed bleached and sliced — remains…

Mar 25 • Danny Maldonado

Newsletters

Stellar Universe

Humanity has spread throughout the Milkyway Galaxy and is shaping the galaxy in our changing image, a Stellar Image.

Paranormal Investigations

Supernatural stories and poetry. Do Not Resurrect, Graveyard Shyft, & Cryptid Poetry

Poetic Scribbles

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Poems and stories that border myth and reality.

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