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flashfictober 2020 21: sleep, sink, cemetery

October 21, 2020 / jmcoster

On nights when she couldn’t sleep, Mira would walk the empty street that led from her apartment building to the cemetery.

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flashfictober 2020 20: coral, glow, blood

October 20, 2020 / jmcoster

Reef pixies didn’t usually need midwifing, but there was a first time for everything.

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flashfictober 2020 19: dizzy, fruit, apothecary

October 19, 2020 / jmcoster

She still couldn’t smell the scent of gingerbread without breaking into a cold sweat, bile rising in her throat.

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flashfictober 2020 18: loss, web, myth

October 18, 2020 / jmcoster

There’s an old myth that I like to tell when their grief-heavy steps bring them inevitably to my door.

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flashfictober 2020 17: storm, shelter, mechanism

October 17, 2020 / jmcoster

They had been waiting for the storm to pass for eighty-six years.

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flashfictober 2020 16: rocket, hand, hierarchy

October 16, 2020 / jmcoster

Melody shoved her hands into her pockets and peered around the bodies in front of her. There was no better place to witness the unspoken hierarchy of the city than in the waiting line for the rockets.

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flashfictober 2020 15: outpost, myth, point

October 15, 2020 / jmcoster

That she had done all that with the dull point of a poorly forged knife was the stuff that they wrote myths about. But that didn’t make it any less true.

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flashfictober 2020 14: armor, cornered, bug

October 14, 2020 / jmcoster

A visit to the flesh menders, a tithe, and a promise, and she could fight again. She had to.

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flashfictober 2020 13: dune, grow, cafe

October 13, 2020 / jmcoster

As Iri crested the dune, her feet slip-sliding across the shifting sand, she did not expect to see a small improbable cafe nestled at the base on the other side.

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flashfictober 2020 12: slippery, acorn, gold

October 12, 2020 / jmcoster

The girl glanced over at the sheet-covered body that had quietly bled out on the white marble floor, effectively ending what was supposed to have been the grandest ball of the century.

It would be the most memorable at least, Barnaby thought to himself.

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