Category: Short Stories
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the stars, they miss you // a story
Originally posted on amid these embers: Well hi guys. *waves awkwardly to anyone who happens to still look at this* Summer’s finally come to an end. It surprisingly didn’t go very fast this year, which I’m quite pleased about. Though I’m still not ready for school to start (but a creative writing class, so that’ll…
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The Beginning
Note: A prequel to The End. I have never seen the sky before. Oh, look. Another lie. I can’t seem to outrun them, even though I am physically fleeing my past. Maybe I have to run farther? Faster? But it isn’t that bad of a lie. It’s pretty close to the truth. In my earliest…
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Guide Me
A Star Wars: The Force Awakens fanfic. I was talking to a friend about this movie, and we agreed that sometimes fanfics can express things better than an analysis can. Maybe I’ll still write a non-fiction review of the movie or what Star Wars means to me, but until then, enjoy this. Oh, and spoilers,…
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Hope {Advent, Week 1}
I have decided to discontinue Fireside Fridays just for this month, and instead use Friday for Advent-themed posts. I love Advent because it forces me to slow down in the midst of Christmas chaos and remember the holiness of what we are celebrating. Isn’t that what this season is all about—holiness coming down in the very midst of chaos and…
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Death
I wrote this story several months ago for a contest with the picture below as the prompt. Enjoy! My name is Death. No, no, not that death, Death of Body, my annoyingly popular brother. Everyone is infatuated with him, but he’s actually a bore with the unspectacular power of Body Malfunction. He can certainly manifest it dramatically,…
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A Glimpse of Starlight 