Short Story
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If I was utterly bewitched by you
Chapter 2 || Hazel Windsor The girl in front of me looked like she was about to die of laughter. I did not know why, did not want to…
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HEINA IV
HEINA IV The crackle came again. It was a sound that was barely audible, not loud enough to surprise me, but also not clear enough to make…
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Calla
The snow was stained a beautiful scarlet. I dropped to my knees, pulling off damp gloves to pack it tightly in little moulds meant to resemble snowmen. Though with…
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It’s Cold
It’s Cold “Damn it…” Paris never bothered to check if the restaurant was closed on a holiday. So we were left there in the cold, two…
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Winter Spent as Cato Johanson
Winter Spent as Cato Johanson “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Attributed to […] His car broke down this…
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To Give Up The Ghost
He knelt at the grave. The dirt clung to the sides of his trousers, the grass beneath was wet. He repressed the urge to shiver. Seth had felt…
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One Look
CW: Violence, mention of alcoholism “You’re not from around here.” The cashier said. He had flat eyes and a buzzed haircut, tattoos wound around his arms, piercings in…
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Reverie of Elysia
Excerpt from “Reverie of Elysia’s Discovery” (2103-2112) The prevailing assumption is that Elysia, if it exists at all, occupies space—a plane of existence either within that in which…
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If I am utterly bewitched by you
Chapter 1 || Eleanora Halls “Wha-? We have a new student…? The teacher never told us anything, though…” The loud chatter dimmed to a hushed but piercing whisper as…
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The Girl in the Green Atmosphere
In the summer of that December, I stood beside you, bare feet, the cold water washed over our ankles as we watched the creeks slither. I was seventeen, and…
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Solstice Fall
I: Starship Earth The Solstice and Nightfall have been travelling through space at near-lightspeed for eighteen and a half years. They move in tandem with the ghosts of…
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HEINA III
I couldn’t bear it. I reread the same sentence in my journal five times and couldn’t remember a word of it–unable to rid the thought that the system might…
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Unawake
Another sleepless night. This is my seventeenth sleepless night in a row. What I’m saying is not insomnia, because I knew that experience from university. I haven’t slept for…
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Stay?
When it was good, it was very, very good. There was an ease in the way they existed around each other that was akin to planets in orbit— constant,…
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Anabasis
TW: Physics They say it was a positron leakage, as Meyrin, Switzerland, went off with a bang. A collision between any particle and its anti-particle partner leads…
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Child-like Faith
The universe knew her best when she was a kid. The whispered secrets to the moon, wishes woven into the dandelions by the wind, closed eyes at 11:11 like…
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Dreamscape
Date: 1983 Location: Villon, Paris. Author: Penelope Thornhill Miss Verena told me today that the peach tree Papa and I planted before I left for Paris had begun…
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Force of Nature
Part 1 || Island of Spirits There is a flame spirit in my house. You can never, ever underestimate them, albeit a small one like mine. They can…
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HEINA II
TW: mentions of death The crowd didn’t stop moving; that was the first thing I noticed. There were no screams, no hesitation. No one even slowed down. They…
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City of Ice
Snow fell in thick blankets across the cold, barren landscape in which I trudge. The watery light of the day had long ago slipped out of sight, and inky…
