Jeff Mach: Villainpunk Author, Dark Fantasy Satirist, Festival Creator and Occasional Goblin:

About Jeff Mach

Hi, I’m Jeff Mach. Welcome. If you landed here looking for the old festivals, there’s a short note about those at the bottom—but these days I’m mostly a writer, and the thing I hope you’ll enjoy is the work itself.

I write short, strange pieces of science fiction and fantasy—mostly dark, mostly funny, mostly from the point of view of the people who are supposed to lose. Villainpunk, goblin philosophy, dungeon doggerel, Dark Lords who keep paperwork, Dwarves who fail at diplomacy, and the occasional poem that refuses to take the end of the world entirely seriously. There are well over a thousand of them on this site.

If the archive feels intimidatingly large, start at the Start Here page. Or just dive in—the pieces are short, the tone is consistent, and the archive doesn’t mind where you begin. New ones usually appear most days.