The Silkworm Bride_A House Plant Indeed_The Bookseller_Abominable
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The Silkworm Bride
On the day of Tuma's 8th birthday, his father opens his small hands and in them places a little silkworm with a hearty smile as he says "This will be your bride." "This will be my bride?""Yes Tuma, so treat her well for she will be your bride." He looked down as his heart dropped and splashed into his gut. This niggling, wriggling thing so small was meant to be his lover? This thing that crept within his palm deep green like unripe mangos? This furry thing in many years would be his children's mother? He felt his tummy bubble as bile crept up his throat. His eyes stung with the salt of tears t...
A House Plant Indeed
A house plant indeed. Christina wandered the aisles of Nordstrom’s Department Store. It was cold outside, and the warmth of the store felt good. Everything she needed was in the store. She began in the linen section. She ran her hands over the highest thread count sheets. She closed her eyes into old memories of her favorite gold-colored sheets. Her mind filled with loving embraces, lazy weekends spent in bed, long conversations as her head rested on her expensive favorite pillow. These new sheets in a new bright hue would fit her needs. She smiled and placed them in her shopping cart. “What ...
The Bookseller
Screeeeeeeeeee!The kettle whistled on the metal stovetop, its once-white color now a faded, mottled cream. It was unusual to have a stove in a bookshop. But there it was all the same, standing proudly—albeit a bit tired—in the corner of the front room farthest from the door. The bookshop was located in what once was an old Victorian house—for the bookshop, at first nestled in what had been the kitchen, soon overtook the rest of the house. The living room was now lined with shelves of tattered, previously loved classics; the bedrooms were themed, each encompassing a genre of their own, from mys...
Abominable
As a kid, whenever Charlie had misbehaved, Grandma Ahnah always had a cautionary tale ready to convince him to stay in line. 'Listen to your parents, or the Qalupalik will rise up out of the sea and steal you away!' 'Don't go out on the dock without a grownup, or a Tizheruk might snatch you into the water and drown you!' 'Don't stray too far from the lodge at night, or the Keelut might stalk you and devour you!"The only legendary boogeymen of Grandma Ahnah's that had ever made a particular impression, though—had, in fact, given him many a nightmare and actually made his breath catch at the sli...