Taria Karillion

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2020

Stories (4)

4 Stories

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“A Yearning For Bananas” by Taria Karillion

A Yearning for Bananas       "Michael! … MICHAEL! …STOP! " I jerked back the blowlamp with a curse that my Ma, God rest her, would've clipped my ear for. My workmate pushed up his welding mask.     “Jesus, Mary and all the Saints, you nearly torched your own leg, y' eejit!” he shouted through the biting, salty gusts. He shook...

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“Almost Like Home” by Taria Karillion

 Almost Like Home (1001 w) “Commander? Permission to enter the bridge?” Cool, odourless wafts pulsed through the doorwa...

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“In Pursuit of Peace (1506 w)” by Taria Karillion

    In Pursuit of Peace                    People sometimes ask me why I became a mortician. I don’t tell them about my morbid curiosity with forensic science or the years of TV Path Lab dramas. I tell them that being one of seven sisters, I may have subconsciously sought a job with plenty of peace a...

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“Different but the Same” by Taria Karillion

Different but the Same(~ 1200 w)They weren’t like me – the people who came out of the lake. I’ve never seen anyone like them, not even in pictures or holo-tales. I should have run home straight away, but I was curious – I wanted to see. My parents always say that curiosity killed the cat, and that’s why they’re extinct, but everything’s a-a-a-always so samey in th...

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Author bio

As the daughter of an antiquarian book dealer, Taria grew up surrounded by far more books than is probably healthy for one person. A Literature degree, a journalism course and some gratuitous vocabulary overuse later, her stories have appeared in a Hagrid-sized handful of anthologies and have somehow won enough literary prizes to fill his other hand. Despite this, she has no need as yet for larger millinery.