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Can We Talk?
“Do you keep tampons in your wallet?” “Wh- what?” “Do you keep tampons inside your wallet?” “What, with my cash and credit cards? No, that’d be weird, they’d get all bent out of shape and then when I needed to use them, I’d have to go through the trouble of fishing it out of the coins and it’d smell like money, plus I’d be the one that ends up dropping the whole thing to the floor and get toilet germs on it, or someone would reach under the stalls to steal it - you know what people are like-”
By Maddy Haywood8 months ago in Fiction
"Remove That Hex!" - 2
This is Part 2 of an absurdist, romance novel-spoof horror-sprinkled tale of Elena, a 30-something divorced postal worker living in a high-rise studio apartment in any city in Russia. Once, she bought a talking fish who turned out to be a witch-hexed prince. The only way to remove the hex would be for Elena to fall in love and give him a human baby. Falling in love was the easy part. One day, Elena started to lay fish eggs and put them in the aquarium where her Prince lived in the fish form. She told him to watch them while she was at work, however, the eggs kept disappearing.
By Lana V Lynx8 months ago in Fiction
The Hidden Door. AI-Generated.
The Hidden Door: A Family Secret Unveiled Growing up, our house never felt special. It was small, quiet, and filled with the kind of silence that comes from people who love each other but don’t talk much. Laughter was rare, conversations were short, and questions were often left unanswered. As a child, I thought this was normal. I spent most of my childhood believing that nothing unexpected could ever come from those walls.
By Abbas Story's 8 months ago in Fiction
