January 13, 2024
Late at night - you wanted money - lit match on fiction story cover
Published by Ammanda Selethia Moore at January 13, 2024
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The Night You Wanted Money

I couldn’t understand why you kept calling our parents, the phone ringing repeatedly before Dad silenced it. “He wants money,” Dad whispered knowingly to Mom. I was too young to understand that you’d done this all before: drunk texts and calls, expectations of payment, always late at night.
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November 17, 2023
Selling Books - fiction story cover, Indian woman in background, books surrounding her
Published by Shaoni Chakraborty at November 17, 2023
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Selling Books

After Maa passed away from sudden heart failure six months ago, I found respite in the only place that has comforted me since childhood. I spent days and nights weeping and hugging every book she left me. I went over every single page of every single hand-me-down and wet them with my heartbroken tears...
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October 31, 2023
Skeleton hands and spider web on background with text: Beware the Hungry Child and Its Mother, fiction
Published by Ammanda Selethia Moore at October 31, 2023
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Beware the Hungry Child and Its Mother

In small village towns, villagers must beware the hungry child and its mother. Kind families, appalled at seeing a hungry child, have been known to invite the child and mother in and offer them a place to stay. They all eat their initial meal, and with much gratitude repeated to their host, they retire to sleep.
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January 27, 2023
The doll - Fiction Friday cover
Published by Milene Correia at January 27, 2023
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The Doll

Mrs. and Mr. Goode were dentists and rarely home. They’d try to compensate the kids by giving them everything they asked for. That is how the kids got a cat. Being spoiled as they were, the children expected the cat to obey their every word and when their parents were around, the two little angels were nothing but good…
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