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Submitted to Contest #98
THE VIRTUOSO The Virtuoso will put your family back together. Heed to his doctrine, follow his ways, and good fortune will be granted to you and your house until the end of your days. It was what the stories said. It was the truth the rumours insisted. These were the words, filtered long enough between cold pillows and stale brews, that Vsevolod’s wife had used to co...
Submitted to Contest #93
THE INVITATION I was livid. They’ve always been so ungrateful. So absorbed in their own concerns — the fickle and the transient, lost in too tumbling, too simple worlds. Not like me. No, I’ve always been better. Smarter. More aware of the unseen things. I’ve always been a good mother. And I should’ve known from the start of this that they didn’t appreciate me, they couldn’t care l...
Submitted to Contest #92
THE SURGEON As a surgeon, he’d never thought there’d be a day when he was scared of blood. When, in that too excited moment, the scalpel split like some unsympathetic, invasive tongue under the skin’s first layer, he knew that there was more than there should have been. He knew that the white earth beneath would be hard, clotted as cold wax — it would be sallower than sore sheen of his own coat. There’d subsist a colder glow than the blanche of his fingernails, stiffer than the base of his throat. Strange, void of that usual ...
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