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Charcoal and Caramel

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Paint By Numbers Killer

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What’s My Name Again?

Emily

3 min read

October 1st

That is the date my therapist tells me. I can tell the weather is changing, getting colder. The wind hurts my lungs and the cold makes my finger change colour.

What did I do in summer? Aren’t you supposed to go visit friends, spend time in the sun, eat food that drips and sticks to your hands then laugh about it. I stare at my pale hands, they’re the hands of a ghost. There is no ind...

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A Tangled Web of Envy

Bianca Koslowski

4 min read

In the hallowed halls of Northbridge College, where ambition mingled with quiet determination, two sisters set upon markedly divergent paths. Aileen, dedicated and diligent in her studies, spent countless evenings poring over textbooks and perfecting essays, her every effort a testament to integrity. In contrast, Amanda, burdened by a lethargy that danced hand in hand with envy, sought shortcuts t...

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Dead Man Panic

Hayulak

2 min read

“Don’t worry, Micheal Gray is only a call away!” The neon sign outside of Mickey’s office kept on repeating that damn slogan over and over again in it’s broken, crackling voice. I just about had it and was ready to break something at that point, fists clenched and teeth grinding. Been waiting for over an hour for Mickey to let me into his office and I had anything but time to waste. Sure I had ...

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Family Troubles

Anthony Cicchino

1 min read

“Only a call away”

“Thanks again.”

I hung up the pay phone and took a deep breath. Watching the family at the grocery store across the street. A man was holding hands with two young boys, clearly his sons, while a woman pushed a cat behind them. Through the glass I saw them pick up an orange, a kiwi, something I couldn’t make out, and then disssapear into the aisle, all smiles. We used to be h...

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Red

Eeshal

1 min read

Red. A color of both love and anger.

Two very different emotions, but both centered around the same thing: desire.

Whether it’s desire for lust or desire for revenge:

red makes you do things. Bad things.

And the desire of the color red is a dangerous thing.

Blood. Cold, thick… _addictive. _

I watched as he begged on his knees, for mercy.

Mercy at my hands. Mercy for me to let him go. ...

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I Shouldn’t Have Told You Nothin’

Tangerine!

1 min read

“Excuse me one moment,” I get up from my office chair to step outside. Dialling the emergency services I peek into my therapy room. Thomas is still there, rocking his body, staring blankly into nothing.

“This is 911, what’s your emergency?”

“Yes, I’m a therapist on 9287 Oak Hill drive. I have a patient who just confessed to the Mulhoney murder.”

“9287 Oak Hill drive?”

“Yes.”

“Dispatching a team n...

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A Trip To The Grocery Store

Molly Lowder

2 min read

The first thing I need from the grocery store is a pack of baby carrots. I’m trying to be healthier and they work amazingly as a snack I can take to work. And then maybe some milk, I think I’m almost out. Then perhaps a handful of apples will do.

She’s walking the lanes as though she has nowhere to go and no list in her mind. I wonder if she realizes how ditzy she looks right now. Anyway, there i...

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The Medic

CheesyChipz

1 min read

_TW: terror threat _

_Wherever there is light, the flowers will find it_”

That’s what my father used to say about my mother. Like many mums, she had a way of casting her own quiet shine onto situations, somehow making even the worst days feel okay again.

My parents met during the 2000s, both serving in Afghanistan. She was a medic, fiercely capable and calm under pressure, and he was a mid-level ...

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But I Love You

A.F. Cabiac

2 min read

“Jackson?” Emma looked over to her best friend.

“Hm?” Jackson stared at her.

“You did it again,” Emma said, referring to his constant zoning out. Yes it annoyed her, but it also scared her, the way he would stare at the wall as if pictures were forming in front of his very eyes. “Are you stressed?” Emma looked at his fidgety hands.

Jackson pursed his lips together and stared down at his hands....

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Murder Before The Ball (Part 2)

Quill To Page

2 min read

The hair on the back of my neck stood on end as I searched for the source of the voice.

Deep. Male.

I turned when footsteps resonated from behind me. Dressed in a suit, although cloaked to hide his face. To threaten a member of authority in something as constricting as a suit would require a tremendous amount of courage.

Experienced.

I grit my teeth, my pockets were empty, my knife in his ha...

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