John Urbancik

Jack Harlow, DarkWalker, walks untouched through the dark. He doesn't have a lot of friends. When a former ally and vampire hunter enters the abandoned mine at Silver Blade, Jack Harlow and Naomi are called in to find him. The mine of Silver Blade has a history. Its depths hide were-bears and indefinable beasts, and an angel of death. Its vast arena is home to the undefeated, and its pits fall even deeper. Everything is a lie. The mine, the entire shallow city of Silver Blade, is a trap. But there are caves under the shallow city, and beneath those, a deep city. Defeated and divided, Jack Harlow, Naomi, and Nick Hunter must make their own escapes - if they can. No one will escape unscathed.

Jack Harlow, DarkWalker, walks untouched through the dark. But he has lost more than he can bear. Accompanied by the acolyte Naomi, Jack Harlow returns to the place where he first saw the dark: a Long Island basement which is his own personal crossroad into Hell. But he discovers there's more than one hell on the other side. If he escapes, will he find he's unleashed hell on earth? Complete with spiders, jaguars, mystic ninja, and an infernal prince?

Jack Harlow walks untouched through the dark. He sees the creatures, the ghosts and the vampires, and they cannot touch him. That changes when, one night in Orlando, he meets and falls in love with Lisa Sparrow, and protects her from one of those creatures. The dark surrounds Jack Harlow and closes in on him, and he's no longer untouchable. Worse, the creatures of the night are compelled to kill him. Aided by his lover and a vampire hunter, Jack Harlow must find out how to reclaim his immunity before he dies. Shadows, phantoms, vampires, lycanthropes, demons, elementals, golems, dark faeries - and more converge on Orlando to destroy Jack Harlow, the DarkWalker. Can he - can they - survive?

In the middle of the night, in the middle of a thunderstorm, he wakes with no memoryon a fresh grave, With a bullet hole in his chest. The name on the licensein his wallet matches the stone. He doesn't believe it. But the address on that licenseis his only clue. One part crime noir, one part horror, one part magic. Pure pu

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. The stories in this second series were written in 2015 with various fountain pens in a selection of Leuchtturn1917 notepads. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. The stories in this second series were written in 2015 with various fountain pens in a selection of Leuchtturn1917 notepads. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. The stories in this second series were written in 2015 with various fountain pens in a selection of Leuchtturn1917 notepads. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

What happens is, the world, everything we know, this thing we call Reality, it exists in our heads. It doesn't really exist. And someone decided they didn't like Reality. Or maybe not that they didn't like it, but they wanted to try another. They wanted it so hard, Reality changed, and now we're in their head. Not our own. See, their Reality shifted, and in it, you don't exist. You just got left over. Welcome to Kevin Nichols' new Reality.

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)

A collection of novellas (long stories) and vignettes (very short stories) in the realms of fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror - fairy tales and ghost stories. From the mind and pen of John Urbancik. Journey into Midnight, City of Night, and to the ancient realms of Babylon. Witness all the end-world scenarios at once. Learn illusion, magic, and alchemy. Spend the night in a Necropolis.

InkStains is a random collection of stories - fiction and nonfiction of any genre - handwritten daily over the course of a year. When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing. He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs - all genres - everything was open, so long as they were complete. These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included. He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I'm biased. You decide.)