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Fiction
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Apr 27, 2026
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The Sculptor (feat. Trivium)
Verse & Vision is V13 Press's weekly literary newsletter. The last few weeks have been genuinely hellish on my end — thank you for your patience. This week's lead story is a horror short where a serial killer called The Sculptor turns song lyrics into death puzzles, and forces a metal frontman to solve them before someone he loves dies.
Fiction
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Apr 6, 2026
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Polite Conversation
Verse & Vision is V13 Press’s weekly literary newsletter. This week’s edition features a short story I wrote years ago, and was the thing I wrote to bring myself out of the terror of moving across countries.
Fiction
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Mar 23, 2026
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Haunted Smoke
Verse & Vision is V13 Press’s weekly literary newsletter. This week’s edition features a short story about shadows in shopping malls, and the grim darkness revealed when the smoke clears.
Essay
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Mar 16, 2026
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The Threshold Doctrine
Verse & Vision is V13 Press’s weekly literary newsletter. This week’s edition is an essay all about vampires, Terms of Service, and the ancient conviction that the most dangerous things in the world can't get in without your permission.
Fiction
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Mar 9, 2026
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Just Stick The Landing
Verse & Vision is V13 Press’s weekly literary newsletter. This week’s story is a little different: instead of me taking the first swing, I’m opening the edition by spotlighting someone else’s work. Going forward, you’ll see more guest voices featured here: more outside minds, more distinct textures, more room for stories and essays that hit the nerve from angles I can’t (and shouldn’t) try to replicate.
Essay
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Mar 2, 2026
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Can't Scream In Fear
Verse & Vision is V13 Press’s weekly literary newsletter. This week's edition features an essay about the body's oldest betrayal: why your voice disappears at the exact moment you need it most, and what that silence has been trying to tell you.
Essay
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Feb 23, 2026
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The Face in the Void
Verse & Vision is V13 Press’s weekly literary newsletter. This week’s feature is an essay about the brain’s oldest paranoia glitch: why we keep seeing faces in the dark, and why it still scares us.
Essay
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Feb 17, 2026
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Following the Wrong Footprints
Verse & Vision is V13 Press' weekly literary newsletter. This week's feature is Following the Wrong Footprints: When Every Culture Dreams the Same Monster, and what it reveals about the oldest fear: realizing you’ve been reading reality wrong.
Essay
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Feb 9, 2026
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...this is Lowkey Hellish
Welcome to the first edition of Verse & Vision, brought to you by V13 Press, and written by me, Lance Marwood. I've been quietly writing in the margins while exploring the darkest parts of our world's underbelly for years. And now, along with the undeniable talent of our hive of writers, this newsletter features literature, reflections on culture, and the crosscurrents of myth and modern life.
