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Submitted to Contest #311
1. The NoiseIt started with the hum.Not a real sound, exactly. Not something anyone else could hear. It lived just behind Sadie’s left ear—a low, restless buzzing, like a detuned radio buried under her skin. Sometimes it flared into voices. Snippets. Half-thoughts that didn’t belong to her.At first she blamed the city. The trains. The old wiring in their flat. She told herself it was just stress. Sleep-debt. The kind of thing that happens when your mum’s gone and your dad drinks from coffee mugs that don’t smell like coffee.But then it follo...
Submitted to Contest #310
The flyer wasn’t flashy.No bold fonts, no Instagram handle, no QR code. Just yellow paper, sun-faded and stapled crookedly to the community board outside the library. I almost didn’t see it.But the word “book” always catches my eye.I stood there longer than I meant to, rereading the lines.THE READING ROOM A book club for those who like to lose themselves in fiction. Weekly meetings. No phones. No recordings. Thursdays at 6 p.m. Downstairs reading room, Eastern District Library. New members welcome. (We know you’ll find us.)There were no tear...
I published it as a joke.A fake horror story, stitched together from an old printout I found tucked inside a tattered paperback at the Salvos shop. The paperback was The Andromeda Strain, brittle with age, cover curled like it had survived a flood. The printout was folded inside, four and a half pages long, typed in Courier, no title. No author.I didn’t think much of it at first. Just skimmed the first paragraph in the store and thought, This is weird. It opened mid-sentence — “...under the stairwell again. The smell was stronger now, like h...
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