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Kyle Fiske

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The United States

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Genre

Science Fiction, Horror, Martial Arts

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Poe, Lovecraft, Rod Serling, Elmore Leonard, C.S. Lewis, Ni Kuang

Member Since

July 2016

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Kyle Fiske grew up on a farm near the Canadian border in rural upstate New York, just outside the small town of Brasher Falls. He studied history and English during his university days, and he writes in the vein of historical fiction, martial arts, classic science fiction, and horror, all with Christian undertones. His first short story collection was published in 2016, and his debut novel Dragons and Boxers was published in February, 2020 by Earnshaw Books. He now makes his home on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.

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	Dragons and Boxers 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Even Closer Than the Sea and Other Stories: Strange Tales of Mystery, Horror and Science Fiction it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Duel at Playful Pearl Inn it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fists of Fiction by Scott Blasingame (Goodreads Author), Kyle Fiske (Goodreads Author), Michael Lauck (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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December 2025

Hello all!

As we’re coming up to the end of the year, I thought I’d give a little update on where I am on the writing front. I haven’t been putting out much over the last couple of years, with the exception of my film writing in Blake Matthew’s excellent Martial Arts Movies Almanac series, which is available on Amazon.

But, I have been writing a lot of other stuff! Being in a very fun and supportiv

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Xenophon's Anabasis

by Maurice W. Mather

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Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels

by Charles Dickens

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The Xingyi Quan of the Chinese Army: Huang Bo Nien's Xingyi Fist and Weapon Instruction

by Dennis Rovere

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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity

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“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: freedom, morality, politics, wisdom

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“At places where protruding rocks blocked its flow, the river hissed, eddying in ripples and foams, and then wrested its way forward with renewed rigor. For a while Bumbutai stood still, enchanted by the struggling brook, her spirits lifted and were imbued with a refreshing sense of hope. Mother Earth's healing hand could always do wonders to a world-wearied soul.”
― Alice Poon, The Green Phoenix: A Novel of Empress Xiaozhuang, the Woman Who Re-Made Asia

tags: forbidden-love, free-spirit, love-of-nature

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“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves