Author: Selina Marcille
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The 17-Year Cycle
A short story of lost love, rediscovery, and the value of never giving up hope. “Youth is wasted on the young, you know.” Old Man Bower repeats the same trite phrase every week when Lila stops in to buy worms for the weekend. His lips pucker like an overripe prune as he rings her…
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The Technological Mirror
Experimental 2nd person flash fiction (wildly unedited) Your alarm goes off, the ringing a tolling bell in the headache already forming behind your eyes. You’re just grateful that you were able to sleep to the alarm today and not have to get up at 4 in the morning to pee and not be able…
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ANTHROPOCENE
Colonel Elsie Digwell woke up wearing the same clothes from the night before in an unfamiliar room. This was a common enough occurrence- she was doing her part to try and save the country. She leaps from the bed and takes inventory of her keys, wallet, and her boots. The man she slept with snores…
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Dollface
Flash Fiction inspired by Leigh Bardugo’s prompt: “The cat had been at war with the demon for nearly a century.” ** “That mortal-born filth has got to go,” Smirnoff declared. His cerulean skin was pockmarked with bloody gashes and the faint glisten of Hobbert’s Cauldron Cleansing Ooze, the green variety. Celestina looked her…
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Pizza Friday
Short Story Featured in the 12 Days of Book-Club-Mas: Vol IV from Once Upon a Book Club One. Kathy Fox was down to a single box she had to finish going through. It had taken weeks, but here she was, finally almost done. The boxes, slowly brought down from the attic over the course of…
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