Brontë Schiltz

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“Currents” by Brontë Schiltz

Submitted to Contest #274

NOTE: this story contains mention of harm to children. Crouching over a cardboard box in the loft of her childhood home, Georgia feels the old terror seeping through her organs, pooling in the joints of her fingers and the space between her ribs. Her memories of childhood are scant, and her mind holds those that it has retained at a remove. She vaguely recalls once being lost in Ikea, but she recalls it as if she had been a bystander, seeing herself hiding under a bed and her parents calling her name and choosing to say nothing. What she rem...

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Brontë Schiltz is a PhD candidate researching the Televisual Gothic at the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work includes academia, journalism, creative non-fiction, short fiction, flash fiction, poetry and theatre.