This story may be triggering for readers who are sensitive to pregnancy and loss. People marvel at doctors and compare them to God. She thinks otherwise. Doctors are closer compared to the modern-day executioner. There may not be a guillotine in sight
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The house was not haunted, that much was obvious, but still she found the teeth. Specifically, chips of teeth that would turn up on her writing desk or on the floor. They were polished like beach glass. The wild turkey running down
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The mill was attached to the side of the stone house. It wheeled, rumbling in the downpour, scooping through the river. Inside the house, a child crouched in the kitchen. “Daddy,” she whispered. Weslan stood at the sink, listening to the pounding
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Past the woods and the lowlands lay The Warrens, where shy but dangerous folk lived in the foothills of the Scandes. And past the hills, the mountains bristled, propping up the sky on the Swedish side. Now Kani could only see layers
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I peek through the door of my daughter’s bedroom and find her sitting on the edge of her bed, rocking back and forth, back and forth, humming a soft and comforting melody. In her arms, she cradles her own daughter, a tiny
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Soon, the world will be destroyed by sound, and I will make it into music. The sounds that are being created everywhere have already driven the mammals out of the forest, and the birds are almost gone; soon, the trees will shrink
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Hooked by Elijah Woodruff Frederick Guttzeit by Paul Smith Memory Ghost by Kat Caldwell Flesh and Blood by Grace Tynski Crab by Ace Chu
There are voices in the room waking me from my hibernation. They aren’t arguing, but there is a strange excitement in their speech. My cardboard box lifts into the air, swings over a small distance before settling back down again. On something
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People underestimate the end of life as you know it. If you had asked me weeks ago, I’d have said it’d probably be horrific and quick. A mushroom cloud blossoming into the air, a few screams, and then darkness. If not a
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It isn’t weird, is it, to wander around cemeteries? I don’t think so. I like the cemetery where my family is buried. There are my grandparents, my parents, and my Uncle Bud. I was really close to him. Every fall, when the
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