Nihil Infolane

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

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“She Babbled My Name From The Guillotine” by Nihil Infolane

Submitted to Contest #68

 “I'm getting beheaded tomorrow” I didn't even look her way. My eyes were transfixed by the sky. Already, on a side, the deep blue-purples and first stars, lighting up. Coming alive. “It's really exciting, you know?” Her voice was always like that, soft, like a whisper, barely rising above the background hum of the cicadas. I followed the gradient, watching the sky blend into gorgeous pinks and yellows playing on sparse clouds. “I am not even sure if you, yourself, believe all that you told me about reincarnation. The beautiful ...

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“Taper” by Nihil Infolane

Submitted to Contest #66

 “I'm going to put your life in a box, and put that box in a candle. And the wick will run through all your body, like stuffing on a bear. The first of you who burns through the wick and the candle, they will live. Yes. And the rest of you, having become worms in my eyes, will die and line the earth with your abnormal bodies. When there is not a single flame alight, the game will end.” That's what the magician said, that day, to all of us. The words that changed it all. And like that, she lit someone and vanished, leaving us to our ow...

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This is a system account. Several members of a system may write here! We will update this with authorships as we write, so each of us gets proper credit rather than it all seemingly belonging to the host ^^ Only three of us will use this account. Ghost (8 years old): Tapers Nihil (22 years old): Nothing yet Red-Cloaked Dialogue (22 years old): Nothing yet