Dark short fiction · take a seat in the dark
iTaleSoWell
dark short fiction, penned by Aniken D. Robinson
The lights are down. The others are already watching. There's one seat left — it's yours.
Dark short fiction · take a seat in the dark
dark short fiction, penned by Aniken D. Robinson
The lights are down. The others are already watching. There's one seat left — it's yours.
The Program
"Every seat's a bad one. Enjoy the show — you won't be the same after."
Feature Presentation
"Reserve your seat. And whatever you do, don't touch the lights."
A dark short tale · rated PG · two minutes, if you last
The shortest, sharpest dare on the program. Two rules — don't read it in the dark, and don't say you weren't warned — and you're already breaking the first. That's the trick; that's the whole horror. iTaleSoWell told you not to, which is exactly why you will.
🔒 The house lights are down and the door just clicked. Keep both eyes open — or don't.
Behind the Beam
"Someone has to run the reels. Someone has to keep the audience… seated."
iTaleSoWellyour masked host · Aniken D. Robinson behind the mask
iTaleSoWell tells the kind of tales you watch through your fingers — dark, quick, and grinning the whole time.
Behind the mask is Aniken D. Robinson, whose debut novel The Marrow Estate hit Kindle in January 2026 and promptly began escaping its covers — the tales now arrive by the week, a widening library of dark short fiction. Then the mask went on, and iTaleSoWell took the booth: a storyteller with a simple motto: "These are cringy tales that iTaleSoWell."
He is, by any honest measure, just getting started — which is the best time to catch the show. The program grows by the week; the features run from creature horror to cosmic dread to comedies about clouds behaving badly. You're early. iTaleSoWell likes early guests. They get the good seats. They also can't leave.
Showtimes Elsewhere
"Can't stay for the whole show? The tales play other houses too."