Anastasia Basil

Joined October 2021

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Bio

My heart belongs to dogs and stories. (Is there a union for introverts? We should organize.) 🖤

Achievements (1)

First Place in Critter Costume Challenge

Stories (9/0)

Me Like Cookie
me like blue cookie blue like me, and blue like you s'long as it cookie
By Anastasia Basilabout a year ago in Poets
Too Many Pints
Shh, mama whispers he's home, keys are in the lock through the blue gate, go
By Anastasia Basilabout a year ago in Poets
Advice from Ancient Rome
Marcus Aurelius kept a private diary. For roughly 700 years after his reign, no one in history mentions its existence until 906 AD when a book-collecting bishop finds a copy and begins a letter-writing campaign: "I have an old copy of the Emperor Marcus' most profitable book, so old indeed that it is altogether falling to pieces.… This I have had copied and am able to hand down to posterity in its new dress."
By Anastasia Basil2 years ago in Humans
Dear Mrs. Hines
That day we went on a field trip, you forgot your hat. We watched you run inside a small yellow house. Such a secret, to see a teacher’s house!
By Anastasia Basil2 years ago in Poets
Poor Tommy
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. No one would dare throw a stone at it except Tommy. Not Michael, not Darren, and Carly was only four.
By Anastasia Basil2 years ago in Horror
Old Barn Road
Dear Maggie Jo, If you're reading this, something went wrong. But also, something went right. No one believed me when I said I wasn’t lying this time. The empty cans we’d tied to the tripwire went flying. I sprang ten feet when I heard the clanging. I’m not lying about that either. Ten feet, maybe twelve, that’s how high I jumped before I took off running, my heart pounding like it was trying to crash its way out and beat me back to Milo’s house.
By Anastasia Basil2 years ago in Fiction
Everything After
Stratton cannot stand long making a rebuttal. His feet are cold on the pine floor and he needs to get going. The fleece jacket speaks to him again, this time with a toddler’s need for something now. He pulls the fleece from its hanger and shuts the closet with force, letting the others know his decision is final. At the back door, he finds his boots stuffed with green peppers.
By Anastasia Basil2 years ago in Fiction
First Place in Critter Costume Challenge
A Star is Born Every HalloweenFirst Place in Critter Costume Challenge
Me: What do you want to be for Halloween? Can we do something different this year? Maybe one of those inflatable dinosaur costumes?
By Anastasia Basil2 years ago in Petlife
When Winning Feels Like Losing
On September 30th, A "Potential Winner" affidavit appeared in my inbox from Medium. My heart stalled. We ask that you please keep the receipt of this email and the following information confidential until October 15, 2021.
By Anastasia Basil3 years ago in Journal

Anastasia Basil

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Stories (9/0)

Me Like Cookie

Too Many Pints

Advice from Ancient Rome

Dear Mrs. Hines

Poor Tommy

Old Barn Road

Everything After

A Star is Born Every HalloweenFirst Place in Critter Costume Challenge

When Winning Feels Like Losing

Achievements (1)