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Ridani's Backstory
Ridani's BackstoryOct 29, 2026
The Last Time We Spoke
This is a short piece about the last conversation Ridani had with her brother, Salidyn, when she was seventeen. Estimated to be a five to seven-minute read.
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a museum of everything i've loved
a museum of everything i've lovedOct 28, 2026
quando o meu coração voltou a bater
portuguesshort-story
Obscura Fantastica
Obscura FantasticaAug 12, 2026
Tomorrow, Itemized
writingshort-story
Maxine's dream machine
Maxine's dream machineDec 30, 2024
Trauma Junkie: II
Fiction: emerging from dissociation to Ravel's Bolero at the Presidio, a narrator reassembles the world piece by piece.
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Maxine's dream machine
Maxine's dream machineSep 17, 2024
Trauma Junkie: I
Fiction: in the aftermath of a war and a Reunification, a narrator haunted by a rotting tank and the emptied Institute above the neighborhood.
fictionshort-story
Maxine's dream machine
Maxine's dream machineOct 24, 2023
Don't walk on the grass
A short story set among the lawns and deer parks of Oxford, where a rule about who may walk on the grass quietly marks the lines of belonging.
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really.lol
really.lolDec 30, 2022
Our place out here
How long am I here for? Oh who's to say, boy. We've got a cottage on the island, so I suppose it's really up to me how long I'm here for. Where? It's out on the spur, right out where the lane starts bolting back and forth like a silly little rabbit. Near the end. It takes an age to drive out there and it knackers your suspension and in…
short-storywritten-by-me
really.lol
really.lolDec 14, 2022
The return
Max dropped bread in the toaster without looking. He read the jagged little letter again from the beginning. It arrived at some point last night, shoved through the letterbox with no envelope, a loose sheaf of note paper ripped from a spiral spine. It had been two days since the final blow up. Beginning again at "liar", he wandered into the bedroom and dug his phone of the sheets with…
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really.lol
really.lolAug 22, 2022
Cove
Pieces of aeroplane sprayed across the water in front of them, but only Arlo saw the distinct shapes of people striking the sea's surface. The beach was the thin fringe of a wide bay. At their backs, the drastic slope of the mountains dove into the ground. The town, just four streets deep, was squeezed tight between the mountainside and the sandy beach. The double blades of beach and town…
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really.lol
really.lolJul 21, 2022
A swim in a pond in the rain
Sarah asked me the other day, "do you actually find you enjoy writing?" Writing is always something I feel I ought to be doing. I feel bad if I haven't written creatively for a long time. I don't think I'm a great writer, nor do I really hope to become one if I applied myself and commited serious time to it. Nevertheless, I read a lot, and reading gives you…
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really.lol
really.lolOct 27, 2018
The Professor
A short story about an egotistical man and his wife
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Lindsay Wardell
Lindsay WardellSep 24, 2018
Short Story - The Last Wizard
“Well, believe what you want,” Mr. Longfellow would say. “But mark my words: stay far away from Old Winters’ house. Strange goings-on are apt to happen there, I tell you.”
fictionmagic
really.lol
really.lolSep 4, 2018
It’s Just You And Me And Everybody Else
A short story from the perspective of a cockpit voice recorder
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really.lol
really.lolMar 22, 2017
Candlesticks
A short story fragment for autumn
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