Dark Vigil Anthology

For DARK VIGIL, we seek stories where the line between hero and monster hasn't merely blurred, it has been purposefully erased in the name of a higher, personal law. Forget spandex and moral codes. We want the grit, the moral decay, the terrifying conviction of those who have taken justice into their own, often bloody hands. Send us the vengeful who trade their souls for justice, the adjudicators whose punishments fit crimes in ways that would make any court of law recoil, and the broken individuals who find their only purpose in the criminal darkness of the night.

Feel free to come up with your own storyline or get started with one of our WRITING PROMPTS:

• The journal entries of a shellshocked soldier-turned-vigilante reveals disturbing details of a violent mind baying for blood, while simultaneously exposing an urban society knee-deep in crime and corruption.
• Tired of seeing his mentor spare their murdering nemesis over and over, a frustrated sidekick of a vigilante goes on a killing spree to do what his mentor should've done all along.
• In a world driven by AI and boundless human greed, a hacker begins to systemically take down the system by hacking the health implants of the 'immortal elites'.
• An accountant for the Income Tax bureau tracks down criminals who 'legally' escape the justice system, destroying their finances and leaving them paupers in the world they exploited.
• A plague doctor, to whom the causes of the plague are simply too obvious, begins donning his plague doctor's mask nightly and murders his prospective patients for refusing to listen to his advice.
• In a world of high flying superhumans, Joe has the 'minor' power to permanently 'negate' biological functions like shutting down a kidney, severing nerve connections or simply stopping a heart...

Country of Publication & Year Established

India

Established in 2026

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