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Offness. Honorable Mention in They Shouldn’t Have Come Here Challenge.
A sharp hit to my ribs jolts me out of my deep sleep. I don’t remember falling asleep at Connor’s place but I guess I must have. My hand jumps to the sure-to-bruise spot. Maybe Connor let his dog in from the cold. Maybe it jumped up on the couch with me and took my breath away with its pouncing paws.
By Raine Neal4 months ago in Fiction
Exodus to Edisto. Content Warning.
Shirley and Em reclined in low-slung beach chairs in the shade of the umbrella while Sally, Steve, and the rest of the kids played on the beach and rode the waves on the red and navy canvas raft. Billy and JP surf cast a ways up the beach.
By Harper Lewis 4 months ago in Fiction
The Daisy Theory: A Teaser
Cheryl Sakurai London, Ontario, is a small city. Unlike its ever traversed British counterpart, with its skyscraping buildings, bustling social scene 24 hours a day, and rich cultural heritage woven into each inch of its fast-paced neighborhoods, the London I know has always been more reserved.
By Snarky Lisa5 months ago in Fiction
Sunlit Absence. Top Story - June 2026.
You are pure poetry Your lips taste like the darkest void, a treasonous valley,of which I have lost myself unduly And set to roam its peaks foreverYour skin is the salt of deathYour heart a welcomed restThese words pierce my soulMake me whole, make me yours, Drown me in love, let me be absoluteSame as the sea foam swallows the shoreDo not let me float half-lit in the starry skyI am not your soft excuse or your safe fallFlood my chest and hold me bareMy night is certain, abandoned, without a care, You deliberately sink me into dusk where waters are velvet and air is warm. We are an immersion. We do not crave comfort with other creatures. We demand room for pain and truth. We are perfect, we are standard, we are beautifully and recklessly undone.
By K.H. Obergfoll5 months ago in Fiction
The Devil's Kiss 1
It all begins with a crime. At Marion's birth, her twin sister is declared dead. In reality, Mariona is delivered to the Lodge to become a "ghost" without a civil existence. In these shadow camps, she is nothing but simple laboratory livestock, anonymous flesh used as a breeder for the lodge's rituals, before being shaped to become their most lethal weapon.
By CECILE HEBELLE5 months ago in Fiction
First day. Honorable Mention in You Had to Be There. Content Warning.
Tiny trembling hands fiddled with the buttons on her dress. They couldn’t stay straight, it was wrinkled. She hated that, she wanted everything to be perfect. She hated to leave her mom, hated to give up the great times watching ‘Bobby’s World’ or ‘Moon Dreamers’ with chocolate milk and bologna sandwiches. She liked them with mustard. She would at least know one person she was going to school with. Her uncle’s friend had a daughter her age and they were best friends. That was a relief. The world flew by as she rode on her mom’s lap in the passenger’s side of her grandpa’s blue S-10. Everything was familiar for now, until they got to the little school. It was already noon and she was glad she didn’t have to wake up early like some of the other kids. Her backpack bounced against her back as she held her mom’s hand as they walked down the giant hallway. This is the first time she would be somewhere alone without her mom or some other family member nearby.
By Raine Fielder5 months ago in Fiction
