Stories tagged “Clue”
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555 North Avenue
I walked down the street, it was cloudy out and it smelled like autumn rain. I looked at my new tattoo, the newly shaved skin glistining with moisture. 555 North Avenue it read, the words a deep, unfaded black. I would find her there, it had taken this...
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Mrs. Peacock Gets Rocked (pt. 1 of 2)
Mrs. Peacock sits in her white wicker chair complacently basking in a bright beam of warm October sunlight. She snoozes in and out of a luxurious dream— something indescribably lovely and peaceful— like heaven. The teapot awakens her with a...
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Mrs. Peacock Gets Rocked/It Was Plum (pt. 2 of 2)
The sunlight had long since vanished by the time Mrs. Peacock awoke to find herself struggling to remember where she was. The room she had grown accustom to had since been cast in alien moonlight. Outlines of a dull and unfamiliar paleness render the u...
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I Accuse
Rufus Green buried his face in his arms and wept on the antique dining room table. The Colonel’s laugh, a meat cleaver chopping into wet wood, danced heartlessly in Rufus’s ears. The old wraith was seated again in his wheelchair (but just h...
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Scarlett in the Study with Righteous Anger I
“Why did you not tell me that my mother was here?!” Josephine Scarlett storms in, furious as John Boddy has ever seen her. “My mother and uncle loved Patricia, of course I invited her. Besides, this silly estrangement can be fixed before the pape...
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Scarlett in the Study with Righteous Anger II
He exhales in her ear, “Are you sure?” “I’m sure, go away.” He backs off and walks away. She returns to the study and the door opens minutes later. “John, what- Josie?” “Mother.” She stiffens in her chair as Patricia scrutinizes her. ...