NOVEMBER 2023, SHORT STORY, 1000 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 31: Women’s bones never burn the same. You’d be forgiven for assuming perhaps that they take longer to blacken and ash, denser for burdens once carried, or that perhaps there is somewhere about […]
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The young widow is clad in the patience of ancestors.Her hands are capable.Her needle thrusts strong.Her stitches neat.But in the other world she isn’t sewing. In Adlivun she enduresLike a brave one on his knees—Harpoon in hand by the breathing hole.Waiting for that hole to be filled.Waiting for that seal to be pierced. We are
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NOVEMBER 2023, SHORT STORY, 1500 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 31: We erupt into the world of ghosts like ink congealing through water. There is a moment when I think we won’t have any form before we become coarse grey fabric. You’re probably
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Today, you are soft, full of flesh and promise Skull swimming with live water Electric tide crashing against the hollows Nodes, nerves, endings, spiralling out beneath the surface My promise to you is not to watch the metamorphosis run its course But to be there to pick up the pieces of it When softness alone
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Never judge a movie by its marketing. July 2023 saw the height of the Barbie/Oppenheimer media phenomenon that took over the Internet as well as theaters all over the world. The contrast between the perceived content of the two movies releasing on the same day couldn’t be more jarring. The dark, somber tones of Oppenheimer
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NOVEMBER 2023, SHORT STORY, 600 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 31: When they find you, they take you in. They give you a warm blanket. They put you to bed in a small room on a cot that is not very comfortable, except
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NOVEMBER 2023, SHORT STORY, 840 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 31: Every year, I cut my lover down again. I begin with her fingernails, then remove the dead blossoms from her hair, combing it long and straight in the planet’s weak autumn sunlight
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You put grief into the earth,carefully, with your own two hands,and by the time you are done,there is dirt under your nails,a mess— but that offeringof tears howls like an exorcism,and you think maybe you got it right this time, finally,that you pulled the monsterout of your heart, insteadof setting it free— but in the
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