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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Sibilant (8)
Sibilant (1)・Sibilant (2)・Sibilant (3)・Sibilant (4)・Sibilant (5)・Sibilant (6)・Sibilant (7) Michael continued helping Alan despite the cessation of his passion for the…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Sibilant (7)
Sibilant (1)・Sibilant (2)・Sibilant (3)・Sibilant (4)・Sibilant (5)・Sibilant (6) "Why did you do that?" Alan's jaw was tight. Michael put down his headphones. "I'm sorry?"…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: The October Mare (1)
Crushed the stalk of rosemary between her nails, sucked the odor into her nostrils, rubbed the oil onto her fingers, tossed the stalk onto the ground. A gust caught pine needles…
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unstitched (52)in #writing • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Recluse (1)
It is possible to abandon technology entirely and retreat into wilderness, to transform overnight all you know. After taking the bus as far as he could, he called a cab and let…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Sibilant (6)
Sibilant (1)・Sibilant (2)・Sibilant (3)・Sibilant (4)・Sibilant (5) Hans Holbein the Younger was one of the most famous artists of the Danse Macabre. Michael particularly liked…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Thumbelon & Goliath (Fairytale Religion Series)
THERE was once a man named Jesse who longed for a daughter, as he had only three sons: Eliab, Abinadab, and Shammah. In those days, there was much battle, bloodshed, turmoil, and…
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unstitched (52)in #writing • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Sibilant (5)
Sibilant (1)・Sibilant (2)・Sibilant (3)・Sibilant (4) The imminent quality of death did not plague Michael or the majority of his classmates. With lives so free of violence…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Sibilant (4)
Sibilant (1) ・Sibilant (2)・Sibilant (3) Immersion in dream worlds eventually began to mar Michael's academic performance. His sleep had not suffered--he'd never slept so long…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Sibilant (3)
Sibilant (1) ・Sibilant (2) The contemplative reader will have noticed that Michael’s life seemed unusually free of distress. Undeniable. It is a great help to be a precocious…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Sibilant (2)
Sibilant (1) This "Gothic" self-actualization resumed an unexpected form, hearkening back to his childhood with its focus on the animal kingdom, for Michael's dorm was soon…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Sibilant (1)
From Michael’s earliest memory, he had been attracted to the Gothic, defined as shards of existence possessing a dark allure while avoiding the melodramatic, gaudy, or trite. As…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: The Grounds (3)
The Grounds (1) The Grounds (2) The nostalgic scent of mildew laced with cold air greeted me the moment I half-descended into the basement. Everything was precisely as it…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: The Grounds (2)
The Grounds (1) The vibrant light filtering through white gossamer curtains banished the previous night's fears, and I stretched with a sense of luxurious indulgence. I had…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: The Grounds (1)
The cold, grizzled volt of vultures scoured the landscape with a temperamental glower, crushing my faint hope of a warm homecoming. What madman would choose to live here? I…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Giant of the Black Forest (2)
Giant of the Black Forest (1) I know that you must be very worried for poor Nell, all alone in the darkest forest with horrendous beasts — but you mustn’t be too concerned…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Teeny-Tiny
My Original Retelling of a Classic Folktale Collected in Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales (1849) by James Orchard Halliwell Winter had its own character here: maternal…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: The Devil's Gift
Though a single species, humanity’s abnormal intellect provides its members with a startling scope of variety. The same organs, same habitual leanings, and same inevitable march…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
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unstitched (52)in #horror • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: The White Cat
She sat in the bath until her skin became wrinkled and glowing, like her dried rose petals that greedily sucked up the thundering water. She told him, laughing, she'd read…
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unstitched (52)in #story • 7 years ago
Fresh Short Story: Heather's Notes
From my earliest memories, my sister kept notes. Rarely longer than a few sentences, these would be carefully folded into smaller squares and stashed, like a squirrel might…
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