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Translation Failure
Urban/Portal Fantasy. Making teenagers save the world is a kinda a crappy move, dude. Another sideways stab at a r/WritingPrompts post. 281 words.
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Footnotes
Science Fiction. Relationships grown in the margins. A reply to a r/WritingPrompts post. 799 words.
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Temporal Dowries
Daily Writing Exercise: Science Fiction. Prompt response. 195 words. Written August 25, 2018. She’s up to five future husbands now. I’ve never been quite sure if I should ask which husband they are, or if telling them will fracture the future… the same way it does when they tell me how I’ll die. I was upset […]
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Folk Tales and Family Legends
Daily Writing Exercise: Science Fiction. History’s rewritten by the victors. Yet another r/WritingPrompts reply. 895 words. “You’re old enough now to know the truth,” his grandfather said as they sat on the back porch watching the starflies blink in the growing dusk, “not just the smooth-edged lies they teach in school. I’m not the best […]
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Mementos
Daily Writing Exercise: Science Fiction. Old memories and misplaced dreams. Another r/WritingPrompts reply, these are actually pretty fun! 403 words. I was only in the museum because it was raining– only in town because my niece was trying to overwrite the family’s memory of the crash with something softer, kinder. My dress was meant to […]