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Firyal Quraishi Paladini

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Firyal Quraishi Paladini

Winner of Contest #325 🏆

I shot my third rabbit today.I think there’s a litter nearby, because they all look the same. White with grey spots, and they all had one solid brown ear. It was something out of a grubby Alice in Wonderland, or a Playboy bunny at the end of her shift. I saw both of those in a shop in New York, once, back when we had money to travel.My baby sister likes to think that the critters all have feelings, and that they’re living some happy lives with tea and cookies in a bow-tied little hole in the base of a tree trunk, and that they’re nibbling at...

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Clockwork

Firyal Quraishi Paladini

TW: Mental health, implied domestic violence, implied sexual violence "Do you believe in heaven?" The clockmaker looks up from his winding gears. "Why do you ask?" "I'm just wondering," the student replies, skating a single finger over a line of dust on the mantle. "I mean, with someone with a profession like yours, you'd have to wonder." The clockmaker looked up, quizzically. “You know,” the student continued, “Clockmaker? Time? Life? Death? C’mon, it’s totally on the nose.” The clockmaker chuckles. "My job is no metaphor, child. I come in...

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