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Violence
Beverly was back at her desk again, suffocating beneath a mountain of meaningless paperwork that only seemed to grow higher and higher the harder she worked, in her drab little corner cubicle, where no...
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Charybdis
Just as François sputtered and felt the fetid water rise above his Gallic head and accepted that this was it, and the gloom and despair had got the better of him and would suck him down deep into its...
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when the leaves go floating away
And that seems like a fine place to pause Monstrous Things; what do y’all think so far? We’re about a third of the way through; at this rate I may actually be done by Saint Waldebert’s – or Roodmas at...
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music for wandering stars
And here’s a soundtrack I put together for the second part of Monstrous Things. Yeah, it’s going to be that kind of book. Enjoy!
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Wire Mother
Ed sat in the tiny green hotel room with a busted air conditioner, a taxidermied deer head, a Gideon’s Bible with all the good parts blacked out, lamps with grotesque flesh-colored shades, and a...
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Hypnagogia
She walked into the black forest, beyond the red poppy fields and the white sand beaches where the herds of wild Centaurs roam, and when she came out she was a very different person from before....
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Hissing and popping
The Orpheotelest held the rocks with sacred charakters painted on in red with white dots encircling them, in each palm, their weight a comforting reminder, even in this realm of dream and madness. Then...
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n. bewitching; attractive; calamity
Hungry Queen of Flesh and Flame seated on her throne of writhing, impossibly entwining bodies, watched on imperiously as her subjects conducted her red, raw orgies in the artificial halflight of the...
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Nachtmahr
Vito rounded the corner and there she was again. Short, squat, pendulous breasts nearly touching her belly, long, tangled black locks concealing her rough rock features but not the gleaming boar’s...
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Chímaira
She wasn’t as flashily glamorous as the masquerading Fairies who swam in and out of his field of vision, but his eyes locked onto hers from across the ballroom, and he navigated through the ocean of...
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Contagious trypophobia
Samuel sat unmoving in the shade of the linden tree, and watched the swamp flowers dance in the same breeze that tousled his hair, and he felt it, the sensation, any sensation, alien to him after so...
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Misophonia
Theonymos the Lesbian approached the revered shrine of the oracular head of heroic Orpheus, and the sage counsel he received back was this: There is an aardvark in Elysium that has the rare gift of...
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Apotropaic signs and charms
Standing outside the lush, fragrant garden grown from seed Adonis planted so long ago, during his too brief stay with Persephone, is a living statue of carved figwood, a punishing man, bald, with a...
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Phallic amulets
Against his better judgment Kakos the Paphlagonian crept past the Sentry, and all the topiary, and drugged the Manticore perched atop the chest, and when he finally got the beast off and saw what was...
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Catoptrophobia
In the dilapidated house upon the hill, much bigger on the inside, with more rooms than any man could ever hope to count, even an idiot savant, she wandered until Diane approached the green door...
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Tardive dyskinesia
“Cut it off,” said Tara, rubbing the sudden phantom pain from her pinky finger. “This is getting out of hand; we’ve been stuck here in this cave for hours and the Gods only know where it is.” “Would I...
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Folie à deux
We’re at the XXXIIIrd annual national Starry Bull gather and everyone looks so amazing in their regulation colors, with all kinds of tradition-specific witchy accessories; catching up, swapping tips...
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Schizoaffective Disorder
Chris ran as fast as he was able through the forest with twisted, gnarly branches that reached out to steal his clothes or scratch his arms and that pretty face of his up, but that was not what had him...
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Autophagia
Jerome entered the room, murmuring the Lord’s Prayer under his breath, and stopped short at what he found. Everything was dark, elegant, sexy, simple lines and suggestive curves and executed with...
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Viscera
Drip, drip, drip, a black puddle began to form beneath the stretcher the girl was waiting on. Drip, drip. She was waiting for the things that wore surgical masks and spattered smocks and sterile gloves...
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