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
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
They had been waiting for the storm to pass for eighty-six years.
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flashfictober 2020 16: rocket, hand, hierarchy
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
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
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
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
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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flashfictober 2020 11: disease, craft, skeleton
Olin had wanted to prove something. What or to whom, he couldn’t quite remember anymore. It was a decision that past Olin had made and that present Olin now had to make good on. Past Olin was the worst.
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flashfictober 2020 10: hope, silence, cold
The dark silence was complete, the weight of a mountain bearing down. The two breaths it took for Ruby’s HUD to flare to life felt like an eternity with nothing to keep her company but the sound of her own breathing.
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