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Lauren D'Alessandro-Heath

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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Let the night come

Submitted to Contest #117

[Trigger warning: violence, mentions of distressful deaths]Oh, let the night come!Mania stood in the centre of the wide, empty field and rubbed her hands together. Her long fingers with their extra joint slid over each other like dead eels. All Hallows’ Eve was her favourite night of the year, the truest of nights, the only night. It was an unboxing of freedom in the endless sprawl of unnamed years, unfolding and deep, she could feel a scream well up in her drainpipe of a throat and gurgle its way from her sharp and ruined mouth. Leaning bac...

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