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Thaw
Thaw by bloodredpitchblack
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Deadlights
Not only are the lights out, nobody’s card works. The credit card machines are all down. There are eight people in line. I am sure they all want to pay with cards. Everybody pays with card. I’m the only clerk this afternoon. Tina’s out. Again. Didn’t even call in. Just a no-show. If this isn’t…
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Lovettsville
I believe in science. It is the only thing capable of answering all of our questions, given enough time. But I have wrestled, for decades at this point, with the memory of what took place in that upstairs room on a moonlit night, in a creaking old farmhouse far out in the Virginia countryside. Whatever…