Darius Jones

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About Darius Jones

Darius Jones’s stories and poems have appeared in Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast, Scarlet Leaf Review, and other places. He is an Affiliate Member of the HWA and an Associate Member of the SFWA.

He lives in Alexandria, Virginia and can usually be found at a local café writing his next piece.

He muses about the craft of writing at dariusjoneswriter.com. He can also be found on Twitter @DariusJonesWrit.

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Strangelet: Issue 0 Sep 16, 2014

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Strangelet is a new journal of speculative fiction, accepting fiction, poetry, nonfiction, graphic stories/comics, and artwork, showcasing the point where genre and literature collide. Issue 0 is our debut.

Fiction:
Colin Wolcott, “The Summoner,”
Biff Mitchell, “These Eyes,”
Brendan Tynan Buck, “A Messenger Will Soon Bring Good Tidings,”
Shannon Norland, “Down,”
Sean Monaghan, “Man with Fountain Fingers,”
Joseph Lucido, “The Floating,”
Curtis James McConnell, “Evolution,”
Rebecca Ann Jordan, “Emily Nerese, 81, Dies,”
Christa Pagliei, “The Girl Underwater,”
Darius Jones, “The Ghul of Yazd,”

Poetry:
Gregory Crosby, “#after,” “For Frank O’Hara,” “DOOM,”
John Grey, “We Explorers,”

Artwork:
Eleanor Leonne Bennett,
J.D. Donnelly,
Denny E. Marshall,

Cover Art:
Emily Lubanko

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The Number Thief Feb 23, 2021

by Darius Jones

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A thief haunts the medina of Bejaia. Leaving no trace, he takes neither gold nor dinars from merchants’ coffers, but instead absconds with their ledgers.

Meanwhile, in the souks of the bustling Mediterranean port town, the ancient Iron Method of accounting used by the Romans is falling out of favor. To replace it, the Arab merchants are turning to a new method to manage their accounts, the Numbers of Hind.

In desperation at the unsolved thefts, the local emir hires the renowned adventurer and philosopher from Qurtuba, Yusuf ibn Yaqzan, to hunt down the thief. As Yusuf makes his way through the souks, back alleys and wharves of the city, he comes to learn these are not crimes of profit, but crimes of passion. But time is running out. The Number Thief is planning his escape.

“The Number Thief” first appeared in The Magazine of History and Fiction in July 2020. It is a companion piece to “The Ghul of Yazd.”

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Pacha-Mama Jan 13, 2021

by Darius Jones

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Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, an illegal mine has been set up to extract gold from the river using elemental mercury. As the operation ramps up, the workers extract the gold and burn off the poisonous mercury into the sky.

Meanwhile, on a desert peak high in the Andes, a storm brews. A hooded figure sleeps on the peak of Llullaillaco neither alive nor dead, victim of an ancient sacrifice. Thunderhead clouds gather and lightning strikes the peak, bringing Qantuta back to life.

Now awake, she senses something is amiss. A feeling summons her off the peak and down into the smoking jungles lying in the distance. There is still a chance to make things right, but she—and the world—are running out of time.

“Pacha-Mama” first appeared in Scarlet Leaf Review in February 2020.

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Breakpoint Nov 16, 2020

by Darius Jones

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The Renewal is a yearly, mandatory procedure for every cyborg on the planet. One cyborg, Anna, is having trouble since the latest Renewal. Certain troubling patterns—disembodied whispers and clips of code—keep rebooting, reappearing, repeating. It’s as if she hears the voice of a ghost in her head that just won’t go away.

One day, Anna and her friend decide to go to the site of the Renewal to see if it will awaken more memories. Once there, more code floods back into her memory and she begins to sense that last year somehow the ritual went horribly wrong. Now, she must piece together her memories to find out what really happened…

“Breakpoint” first appeared in Kyanite Press in November 2018.

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So, You Found Me Oct 11, 2020

by Darius Jones

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Some think the words on the written page are dead. That stories are inanimate things. But if you search long and hard enough, you will find a story that merely sleeps, waiting for a reader to reawaken it. This is such a tale, a parable about a story more alive than most. A study of a creature mutable, reproducible, and—above all—sentient. A story not unlike you and me.

“So, You Found Me” first appeared in Between Worlds magazine in January 2017.

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Barabanchik Sep 7, 2020

by Darius Jones

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Barabanchik, real name Rustim Leonidovych Shamiev, has worked the ticket racket at Kazansky Station in downtown Moscow every day for the last six years. For every train headed east from Moscow, it’s his duty to collect a payment, a simple tax if you will, from every passenger. Only, he has to do it with a certain subtlety, verve and smoothness.

But a new ticket seller has just arrived at the station, Maria Andranovna. Maria is not privy to the inner workings of Kazansky Station. Not yet. Today, Barabanchik is determined to collect his daily take and only Maria stands in the way. Only one can prevail...

Barabanchik first appeared in Issue 4 of Sobotka Literary Magazine in July 2016.

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The Ghul of Yazd Aug 4, 2020

by Darius Jones

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For decades, rumors have circulated in the souqs and hammams of Yazd about an unclean spirit, a ghul, haunting the Parsi burial ground on the edge of town. To finally quash the rumors, the Parsi priest Dastur hires the Arab philosopher and adventurer, Yusuf ibn Yaqzan, to investigate.

For a fee, Yusuf agrees and on a moonlight night, heads up the hill with a child’s body on a funeral bier to the abandoned burial ground. As the ancient, oaken doors of the Parsi dakhma groan open, Yusuf and his men grasp the bier tightly and take their first steps across the dark threshold.

The Ghul of Yazd was first published in Issue 0 of Strangelet Journal in September 2014. It is a companion piece to The Number Thief.

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The Hatchlings Jul 2, 2020

by Darius Jones

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For centuries, the Synod of the Holy Mothers of Kaldar have forbidden Off-Worlders from witnessing the Zakir ritual. But for the first time, one man has been offered an invitation through his acquaintance, Mudarak.

Inside the arena where the ritual is about to take place, a large crowd gathers and divine justice awaits. The multitude fidgets and grows silent. Attendants in white tunics sound the trumpets and play the Hymn of the Desert. Join them in the arena. The ritual is ready to begin…

The Hatchlings was first published in Fiction Vortex in August 2013 and won 3rd place in the FV Readers’ Choice Award.

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The Man Who Ran from God Jun 18, 2013

by Darius Jones, Dave Fey

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In a dream, the voice of God commands Jonah to go to Nineveh, capital of the mighty Assyrian Empire. Instead, he books passage to the other end of the world. A storm and a hungry whale are the least of his worries, as Jonah confronts deluded fishermen, befuddled peasants and crooked priests. At the end of it all, Jonah must face the hardest decision of his life: stand and preach to the fervently pagan crowds in Nineveh’s main square or flee back home to Judea.

This modern, secular retelling of the Jonah tale unwinds fact from fiction. The narrative imagines Jonah as a real man who felt compelled to spread his monotheistic belief at a time when paganism was almost universal. Loosely based on the Biblical narratives of Jonah and The Book of Kings, the narrative draws on recent research on the Neo-Assyrian empire to paint a lush picture of its forgotten people, cults and customs as seen through the eyes of its determined, cantankerous hero.

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The Library of Lost Books Jul 12, 2012

by Darius Jones, Dave Fey

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Where do lost books go?

The Babylonian texts thrown in the Tigris by the Mongol invaders of Baghdad. The sequel to Gogol’s Dead Souls burned to ashes by its own creator. The original edition of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom misplaced by T.E. Lawrence in a train station. Are these books destroyed forever in those moments? Or does a piece of them live on?

By day, Darius is a struggling ad writer. One night, he slips into a hitherto undiscovered world where a small group of determined guardians preserve lost books. As he explores this new world, he learns the techniques used for gathering and preserving the lost manuscripts.

But all is not well. Darius’ arrival has set in motion a series of events that threatens to bring down the entire world. If Darius hopes to preserve the Library and all it contains, he must reach within himself to find the strength to face the greatest threat this world has ever known.

Where do lost books go? They go to the Library of Lost Books.

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