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Jagged The blinds were half-open, moonlight and street lights mingling to tiger-stripe the bare tiled floor. It wasn’t you… She stared at the barring of black and white, feeling the silence get closer and closer. Nerve endings were numb, her fingers rubbed restlessly against her skin but felt nothing. I…

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Pieces
Pieces
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Unwanted Lessons

Mitch turned off the engine and the tick of the slowly cooling metal was the only sound they could hear. The early morning mist shrouded the woods and fields, rising from the river and the marshes, from the thin scrim of ice that whitened the ground, hiding the details of…

Short Story

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Unwanted Lessons
Unwanted Lessons
Short Story

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Published in Lit Up

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Divine Curse

Endless winds, perfumed with carrion and sulphur, whispered through pocked cavern walls. The heart of this realm beat arrhythmically, pulsing dark carnelian light and a staggering, dissonant tempo against the construct he wore. Once an angel, he had always been energy: soulless, deranged and scarred by a thousand years under…

Fiction

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Divine Curse
Divine Curse
Fiction

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Can You See Me Now?

Another night. Another too-tight dress. Another glass of Moët and aching feet. She leaned on the railing of the gallery and stared down. The glitterati filled the cavernous space; a flock of sleek cranes in shimmering fabric. Every possible hue and tint of white, cream, gray and black was represented…

Fiction

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Can You See Me Now?
Can You See Me Now?
Fiction

9 min read


Jul 13, 2022

The Night Falls

The first long night had been forty-eight hours. Those who made it through to the dawn that followed discovered their world had gone. Something to do with the darkness, the original scientific consensus had been, Callie remembered, chewing on the end of her pen as she leaned back, the journal…

Fiction

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The Night Falls
The Night Falls
Fiction

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Published in Lit Up

·Jul 5, 2022

The Sound

Lit Up Summer Holiday Prompt — The warm breeze that slipped by her cheek as she walked over the dunes carried the scents of the beach and the harbour across the bay; salt and the faint mud smell from the river mouth, fish and fainter still, diesel. …

Fiction

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The Sound
The Sound
Fiction

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Mar 4, 2022

Resolutions

Light, blazing through her eyelids. The burn of vomit and bile in the back of her throat. Pain in the side of her face, down her neck, into her shoulder. Another Saturday morning. Marianne lifted her head from the concrete kerb, cursing as the hand placed to lever herself into…

Fiction

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Resolutions
Resolutions
Fiction

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Feb 14, 2021

Stained Past into Present

Reba shuddered as the emanation in the house prodded at her, a touch on her mind that echoed the cold and greasy feel of the ritual candle in her hand. In the corner of her vision, the home’s owners clung to each other at the open door, their eyes wide…

Fiction

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Stained Past into Present
Stained Past into Present
Fiction

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Published in Lit Up

·Feb 6, 2021

Building Characters

How to Build a Character in Fiction? — How can we build our characters? This is a common enough question fielded by new writers, and has many and varied answers online and off. Some writers prefer character sheets and dossiers and detailed notes; others explore their characters in situ, discovering background and personality and attitudes within their native…

Writing

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Building Characters
Building Characters
Writing

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Jan 29, 2021

This Sleep of Death

Cold was the only thing she could feel, weighting her limbs, fogging her senses, distorting her thoughts. Cold pressure against her mouth. A radiating cold of the stone table beneath her. Even the light was cold, streaming through the slits of the turret, draining the stone of hue. Laughter. A…

Fiction

12 min read

This Sleep of Death
This Sleep of Death
Fiction

12 min read

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