Tag: psychological
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Wicked Branches – Pt. 3
Sometimes rotten branches can be pruned. But sometimes the whole tree must come down.
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Wicked Branches – Pt. 2
Sometimes rotten branches must be prunes. But sometimes the whole tree must come down.
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Wicked Branches – Pt. 1
Sometimes rotten branches must be prunes. But sometimes the whole tree must come down.
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One With Nature
“You awake?” I reached out beside me to pat Allie’s back. The sun blazed through my eyelids, and a breeze wafted in through the open door flap, chilling the tent. I shivered, burrowing into my sleeping bag. I found hers empty and cold beneath my hand. “Hey, you need to close the tent. We don’t…
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Always Wary in the Woods
I sniff the air. There’s that pungent, metallic stench. I sniff the soil. Blood. The same thing every day now, it seems. I part the undergrowth and press my body through, catching thorns, nicking tears into my skin. I scarcely notice. Let another scar be added to the mass of old ones crosshatching my skin.…
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The New Susan
Susan looked down and around her mid-section to the ill-fitting loafers on her feet, and sighed. She inspected the unflattering dress from Ross in the mirror and sighed again. She smoothed down the sides of her hair which were already curling into a halo of frizz, and groaned. In her mind, she still fit the…
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Invisible Polly
Polly sat on the bench, her clasped hands tucked between her knees. Her mother, Rhonda, sat beside her, encircling her with her arms. “What do you think they’re going to say?” Polly asked. Rhonda thought of Sister Sabrina’s situation a few years earlier, and shook her head. “Whatever they say, we’ll abide by. They’re given…
IFFY FICTION 