Stories tagged “silk”
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Ashes Remain: Prologue Part 2
Quivering digits turned the pale photograph over, my crystal orbs studying it’s backside. A short sigh of breath escaped as I turned the picture over once again. I stood, my gray suit jacket rustling against the wooden chair that I had just sat o...
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Arachnid Dreams
Spiders crawl In the air Silk strings fall White like hair
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Eye of the Needle
Yeoman West sat pondering her fake SilkMilk anime tattoo; a white spider sitting on a milkmaid’s stool on a maple leaf background. During Earth’s 21st century, Nexia scientists successfully genetically modified silk-spinning genes into goat...
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Silk Starlight, Redux
A delicate hand raises limply to trace circles in the mosquito netting. The man in the moon intrudes, casting a symphony of non-color across the white mesh, cobwebs, and pale skin. Her faint rasp of a breath is an angel’s footfall. He watches, po...