Stephen Herczeg is an IT Geek, writer, actor, film maker and Taekwondo Black Belt from Canberra, Australia, who has been writing for well over twenty years, with sixteen completed feature length screenplays, and numerous short and micro-fiction stories. Stephen’s scripts, TITAN, Dark are the Woods, Control and Death Spores have found success in international screenwriting competitions with a win, two runner-up and two top ten finishes.

He has had over fifty short stories and seventy micro-fiction drabbles published through Hunter Anthologies; Things In the Well; Blood Song Books; Dragon Soul Press; Oscillate Wildly Press; Black Hare Press; Monnath Books; Battle Goddess Productions; Fantasia Divinity; The Great Void Books and DeadSet Press.

A growing number of his Sherlock Holmes and H.G. Wells inspired tales have also found favour with Belanger Books and MX Publishing.

He lives by the creed “Just Finish It”, and his Mum is his biggest fan.

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Rule One

by Stephen Herczeg I can’t believe she did it again. Sixth time this week. Rule One: Always expect someone is leaving the elevator. Does she care? No. Every time the doors open, in she charges, regardless of whether you’re getting out or not. She’s like a virus. Others drawn by her stupidity follow her in […]

The Last One

by Stephen Herczeg  Dark skies greet me as I wake. Pain strikes my flesh. ‘Tis nothing compared to that of my friends, my comrades, my enemies. Dead, littering the battlefield, unmoving. I am the last one. The conqueror. Gold shimmers above the corpses. Their spirits stand as one. The great gates of Valhalla open. Silently, […]

The Skittering

by Stephen Herczeg   Insects. After decades of Hollywood telling us that aliens were little green men, they finally arrived. And they were insects. Bigger than rhinos. Tougher than cockroaches. And hungry. The first wave hit New York. Ripping apart people like they were dolls. We deployed within hours. Thousands swarmed the streets; the sound […]

Fairies Gotta Eat

by Stephen Herczeg   I found them at the bottom of the garden. Sparkling. Beautiful. Little winged people. They looked hungry, so I left a table covered with treats on the lawn. Mummy and I went out. Daddy did the mowing. As the garage door went up, Mummy started screaming. There was the table. There […]

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Stephen Herczeg

Stephen Herczeg is an IT Geek, writer, actor, film maker and Taekwondo Black Belt from Canberra, Australia, who has been writing for well over twenty years, with sixteen completed feature length screenplays, and numerous short and micro-fiction stories. Stephen’s scripts, TITAN, Dark are the Woods, Control and Death Spores have found success in international screenwriting competitions with a win, two runner-up and two top ten finishes.

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It’s So Dark

by Stephen Herczeg   I wake. It’s dark. So dark. My bed is tight. Snug on both sides. I reach up. There’s something a few inches above me. It’s hard, but covered in soft fabric. It’s like I’m in a box, with soft silk sheets all around. I’m wearing a suit, not pyjamas. Where are […]