The Anatomy of Reality

Capturing the essence of life through embodied poetry, short stories and fragments of longer pieces that I am working on. I love to get lost in my writing and often read back my work and it makes no sense at all.

A publication for adventurers in love with the art of storytelling and the thrill of discovering worlds yet to be written.

Death's first apprentice is sent to live as a human on Earth for 365 days, awkwardness ensues.

A publication of my daily writings, mostly fiction, primarily bullshit.

Follow along as I write a cozy fantasy novel

Step onto the path leading to mastery of the Eternal Art.

Psychedelic stories for adventurous readers. Proceed with caution.

I love stories. Hopefully you do, too! This is a substack devoted to stories: telling them, discussing them, imagining them, pondering them, dissecting them, debating them. Join the fun.

Writer of fiction. Horror, speculative, a smattering of sci-fi. The real world is brutal, and I try to make sense of it through fiction. I have one serialized novel up on Substack, with another coming in 2026.

Stories short and long, personal essays, and other writings by Joshua Kay

I am a posthuman curator – part archivist, part storyteller – exploring the shifting boundaries between humans, nonhumans, and the speculative worlds we co-create. Think of this blog as a museum of the future, always already wrapped up in the past.