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Submitted to Contest #294
“Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monstre délicat, — Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!” —Charles Baudelaire, “Au Lecteur” Inspired by Charles Perrault’s fairytale “Les Fées” I wake from a dream of her with a silent scream aching upon my lips. In the first moments I must check, be sure—no vipers have sprung from my lips in the darkness, my husband sleeps on the opposite shore of our bed, and my stomach is hard and full over the child within. Forcing my breathing into submission, I rise with care not to wake either sleep...
Submitted to Contest #293
(Trigger Warning: violence, death of a child.) “Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live…” —“The Jumblies”, by Edward Lear It’s the forty-second day, and Yana and I know everything about each other. Or, I know everything about Yana and I let her exit in a space between thinking she knows me better than any other and believing that there’s enough which she does not know to make me, with my five years’ advantage in experience, seem very wise and reliable. By the rules of this, I have held her every night, and dr...
Submitted to Contest #292
Smoke curls from the end of the man’s cigarette, grey fading against the white shore. Beneath the rowboat, the January waters of the North Sea are a dull black in the early morning light. Phineas Dredge takes another drag on his cigarette, and avoids making conversation with the fisherman giving him passage to the island. Trust a damn artist, Phineas thinks, to retire somewhere like this. The smoke’s warmth in his lungs makes the cold air bitterer with contrast, and Phineas adjusts the collar of his coat as stray snowflakes colonize hi...
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