Tag: novel
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Sixty-three
Dad spends most of his free time in the basement. He barely even says hello to us all before he walks down those stairs and disappears until dinnertime. It began about a year ago. He found a YouTube channel about model cities, and instantly became obsessed with it. Something about those tiny houses, the ornate…
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Sixty
Ignorance is bliss. That’s what they say. The more you know, the more you fear. Doesn’t really apply if you’re only pretending to be ignorant, though. The school still functions, if barely. Nearly half of the teachers have died, but a greater number of students have passed, too. It evens out, I suppose. What a…
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Fifty-nine
“Tomato.” “Red.” “Carrot.” “Uh, uh… orange.” “Lemon.” “Yello— fuck!” Sadie screamed as the shock flowed through her body, shaking and jolting in the chair she was strapped into and threatening to rip it out of the ground. “Lemons are green, Miss Rivers,” the man in the suit sitting in front of her said, his hands…
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Fifty-eight
“I am not a pussy!” “Yeah?” chided Reece, hands on his hips and a disgustingly smug grin on his face, standing in front of his band of goons. “Go inside then!” My eye twitched as I looked over his shoulder to the property beyond. It was a derelict house, constructed of rotten wood and crumbling…
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Fifty-six
I step out of the shower, the steam fogging up the entire room and obscuring the mirror. Water drips down my body, soaking the mat beneath me, and I grab my towel from the rack, wrapping it around myself before I shiver to death. The heat from the lamps in the bathroom can only do…
A Forsworn Fantasy 