Thirteen Days of SpoOoOoky Reading!
"When she finally made it home to her apartment, she slammed the door shut, then had to lean against the wall for a moment to gain her composure; she felt disoriented, her pulse was racing dangerously, and she feared she might faint. She still had the thing clutched in her arms."
I'm Not the Daughter
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"That night I dreamt of heat lightning, and when I woke, I woke thinking about the stolen bones. "
The Bone Tree
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"At nighttime things happen that aren’t allowed in daylight your dead lover wants to see you wants to rendezvous to peep you up & down"
Spell for Revision in January • The Séance
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"Okay. I would now like to ask you some questions about your physical symptoms. In the past thirty days, have you experienced any instances of liquefactive necrosis?”
BPIR
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"You stop watching your family’s dinners from outside the house. Instead, you are inside, hiding in the entrance closet and observing through the shadows."
Head of the Table
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"The ghost of her fading nightmare made Mel’s heart rate quicken as she picked Daisy up. Turning the doll over she felt a ridiculous relief on seeing her left eye still fused shut."
Foundling
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"The heron’s panicked feathers spittle up fewer and fewer droplets of water. The cattails and swamp grass surrounding it flail a little less, a little less. The wind of each wingbeat dims, dims. And then, finally, is gone."
Life Among Reproductions
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"when she beat her drum it made the sound of an old man coughing/ the crows jumped and sang with/ sand in their throats"
As Pure as the Blood of the Moon
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"It was a normal year and a normal night like any other. Jack O’Lanterns prowled the pumpkin patches. Howls echoed in the distant woods, no doubt aimed at the blood-red moon. Foul, ancient things rumbled nameless in the deep. Thursday."
Great Existential Dread
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"This is how the caecillion enters you. First, he drums his fingers very lightly at the door of your heart. From inside, you look up, unguarded because the tapping is so friendly."
Echo, Shadow, Ether, Mirrorlight
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"He felt a shadow pass across the room and shook it away. It didn’t matter. Whatever danger had been there was gone; Gail had said so."
The Soothsayer
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"As she spoke, the stitches pulled against the edges of Diane’s face, and a small drip of blood rolled from the edge, just at where her skin was sewn on, down her neck, tracing the length of her collarbone. Barbara pretended not to see..."
The Ladies' Supper Club of New Banebridge
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"I’ve never been haunted before, nor have I had a stress-induced break from reality, but regardless of which one of these is happening, I make the choice to befriend the ghost bird."
They Only Eat the Dead
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