Tag: fear
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OPEN DOOR
It always followed the same pattern. Middle of the night. Panicked phone call. Incoherent story. She always ended up agreeing to go over. This is different. Door wide open. Probably just a neighbour didn’t close it right. Out of habit she checks the mailbox. Empty. Up the stairs, lit by flickering halogen. Along the corridor.…
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DEEPER MEANING
‘I’m worried for your welfare!’ she shouted up to him, trying to hide her genuine fear. ‘I’ll be fine.’ He had come this far, he wasn’t going to turn back now and chicken out in front of everyone. A bet was a bet. He stood in just his pants and looked down at the black…
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PARADOX
Two new hips and knees. A hair transplant. New skin. A bionic liver. A new kidney. My third heart. I went through the list in my head. Immortality came at a cost. There wasn’t much of my original body left, the one I was born with. But looked the same as I did when I…
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LONELINESS
The wind howled round the lighthouse. Jackson looked up at the bright beam as it circled round, shielding his eyes from the driving rain. Satisfied that all was in order he went back inside. He took off his soaked oilskin jacket and walked up the staircase to his bed. The relief wouldn’t be able to…
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SCOPOPHOBIA
She’d asked them to brick up the opening but the doctor said it was against building regulations. Instead she got planters and grew grass in them. After a few weeks it was tall enough to fill half the void. She tended to it in the hope that it would fill the opening completely. They tried…
Iain Kelly 