All posts by Jack Stewart

About Jack Stewart

Jack Steven John-Paul Stewart is a longtime supporter and devourer of many delicious kinds of processed deli foods, hotdogs, and cheeses. Billed nationwide as The Inconsistent Oracle and Itinerant Shaman, Jack was born into this world at the bitter end of the 20th Century somewhere in the vast hotbed of remote obscurity that is the Mojave desert. That he managed to somehow stumble his way back and forth across the dystopian technopolis of the United States, travel under the vast blue oblivion of the Pacific Ocean, and founded a nearly invisible publishing career with his first few novels, is something of a Delphine Mystery. He lives with his ever patient and long suffering wife and their menagerie of mechanical pets in another equally vast, remote, and obscure northern New Mexican desert.

Tinker Bell, Neverland War Edition

Saturday night’s all right for a fight! Check out this new piece by our Kraftwerks Division! This is the first of a series for our upcoming Neverland War novella where Tinker Bell lead’s the fairy armies against a bunch of fascist pricks, Pan is the new Child-God of Neverland, and no one ever has to grow old (but they do die)!

Blood, guts, and pixie dust. Artwork by ICP Kraftwerks (c) 2021.

Black Widow Artwork

ICP Kraftwerks tribute to Marvel’s Black Widow. And since we’re lazy as f@#k (LAF), we’ll probably post this as a tribute to Silk and Black Cat as well. See more in our new gallery right here!

Black Widow. Or Silk. Or Black Cat. Take your pick.

RuiNin, by Made in DNA

Looking to start your weekend right? Then have we got a deal for you! Check out this cutting-edge cyberpunk short story from the brash and upcoming sci-fi author Brent Millis (AKA Made in DNA). The Man from Japan serves us a dish of cyber science fiction with a spicy dash of horror. Take a stroll through this Japanese wasteland, soak your bones in the local bathhouse, and watch out for the yokai! Read RuiNin here for free!

“RuiNin” by Made in DNA. Artwork by ICP Kraftwerks, (c) 2021.

New Hypershort!

Who doesn’t love a good zombie story to get their weekend moving? Insurance salesmen! Tax collectors! And divorce lawyers, that’s who! For everyone else, got time for 683 words and a quick stop in The Great Wreck? Then click here and have at it Modern Reader! Watch that last step. It’s a doozy!

Don’t you jump at me!

New Hyper Short!

Note to future writers! It is way more fun to write about pandemics than to live through one! Does that mean we’ll stop writing about pandemics as we live through one? Hell no! Pandemic stories are our bread and butter! And who doesn’t like a nice zompoc story to keep them, warm at night?

Never mind all that! Looking for a juicy bit of science fiction horror to break up your daily grind? Then look no further, my friend to this new hypershort! Take a read and tell us what you think!

Space is cold.
Copyright (c) 2021 Iron Cross Publishing

The Butcher

Looking for a way to wrap up your weekend? Dive into a new ICP Alpha short story called “The Butcher!” Sink your teeth into the freshest horror around and follow Brian, a young boy who puts babysitters though the grinder and runs them off faster than his mother can hire them. But with the latest one, he may have found his match. Chow down on this grim tale right here and remember, you are what you eat!

The butcher never skips arm day. Never.

The White World

How about a bit of science fiction to start you July 4th weekend off! Take a trip to New York, circa 10,000 AD in this new ICP short story. See the sights! Grab a hot dog in Times Square and see a show on Broadway! Leave your mark at the base of the Statue of Liberty! And for God’s sake, do not stay out after dark. Read The White World right here!

“I have a spider on my shoulder, don’t I?”

Shanty Town Monsters

Looking for a bit of horror to top off your day? Then look no further, Modern Reader! Dive into Shanty Town Monsters where humanity has moved out to the edge of the solar system and colonized Pluto and his moons. There, Eds and Nibs learn a valuable life lesson in cannibalism. Then take a look around Tartarus, and don’t forget to leave an offering for Nix!

Let’s have some fun. Artwork by the maestro Adam Archer!