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Madeline Sammut
@madelinesammut
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Madeline's Stories
Immortal Scents
Some might judge me for eating a Jimmy Dean pancake on a stick (much less 3 of them) while I sit in my bath, but I stopped caring about ...
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Mugwort’s School for Murderers
I ran through the hallways trying to get to class. It seemed like one of those scenes in a movie where the main character is comically ...
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Celtic Maid of Disaster
Grind the beans until they turn as smooth as sand in an hourglass. Pull the lever until the water streams down in an iridescent cascade ...
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The Glory of a Face
Wearing a mask is a beautiful thing until the moment dawns on you that taking it off is a lot harder than putting it on. I had been ...
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Demonic Dissent
I had always been an unremarkable demon. I came from a proud bloodline of many a well known incubus that had seduced some of the major ...
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Furry Friends
Whenever someone asks me about my childhood, I don’t smile and think of good times. I shudder. I think of the only thing from my childhood ...
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Lessons Learned
You think you know me. But I’ve fooled you with my ordinary clothing and passive manner. I want you to think I’m weak, submissive ...
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Burt's Discount Dental review: ⭐ 1 star
The damp murk of the cellar, unaided by the arm of moonlight reaching in through the grime of a solitary window, was silent and still ...
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Fraught with Battle
"Fellow Blockians, this is our hour of battle. We must not falter! To victory! Battalions 8 and 9, prepare for ambush!" The legoes ...
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The Companionship of Cyborgs
The flickering lamp was the only source of light in the darkened field of buttercups. The bunny couldn't pause to think of why it was ...
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The Catfight That Saved His Life
The end of my life was near. I could feel it in my bones. “Make it a double,” I said to the bartender. What would a few extra drinks ...
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Seeing Kate
I was walking, book in hand, when I bumped into someone. I was met by a familiar face. My friend, Kate, looked back at me. But then ...
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The CVS in Wonderland
It was a crisp fall day. The end of our hike had led us to a clearing in the forest, just behind the CVS. Holly was standing still ...
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Destroy all humans
I was there alone.
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Leisure Wear is Serious Business
One of the only good things to come out of the pandemic was this: by 2025, sweatpants have become acceptable garments in every situation ...
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Cecelia’s Personal Storm
Somewhere outside, someone—or something—was wailing. A blizzard was due, and Cecelia wondered if perhaps it was a banshee warning the ...
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Who was phone!?
The hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach was overtaking me. I reached for the bottle of Lorazepam, only to find that it was empty ...
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Clownish Fate
"Baloney!" cried the clown. "I'm telling you, thanks to Stephen King, all the children in the audience were terrified of your antics ...
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The Boy who Stopped
Every morning, before the day started me and Lucy would watch the military boys run along the country side. Everyday I would ask Lucy ...
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Lodai Laundry
There are so many beautiful and subtle things about this planet that make it unlike earth, but the most striking has to be the red ...
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The Luck of Subject D
Day 154 of the genetic mutation research: Subject D has started to repond to the treatment. The other subjects didn’t run with the ...
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The Stoat Gambit
He approached me in the in plaza, smiling. Without a word, he handed me a card. It read “Marcus Wallaby the Third. Effing up the ineffable ...
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Adventures in WTF land
This is how the story goes, how it ends, no one knows. Line by line, we fabricate it ‘til we sound inebriated. Using only context clues, cleverly ...
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Night Owls
Jerry glanced down at the photograph in his hand, then back up again at the woman sitting alone at the back of the cafe.