Past

I finished reading Ryan North’s How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain this week, so there’s a good chance you’ll be seeing me on the news wearing tights and battling my supervillain frenemy Elon Musk shortly.

In the meantime, check out my Goodreads review of that book, or stay on this page for some romantic horror flash fiction!

Enjoy!

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Why not me, instead? Or both of us together?

I don’t leave the flat we shared. Let others put flowers on your grave.

The doorbell rings and rings. I only answer to make the noise stop, and there you are, dead.

The cold grave has not been kind to you. (You always hated the cold.) I strip you of your clothes and take you to bed to warm you up.

You feel different—not just cold—but you were an organ donor.

I have most of you back.

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It happens naturally.

You hold me, and I hold you, and our mouths meet. I miss your breath pushing past mine as we kiss, but the chill of your tongue in my mouth is exciting.

It’s perfect. It’s you, but different.

Like starting over again with someone new, but already knowing them.

You’re hungry, too, not just cold. I feed you.

I’m happy to be buried inside you, so nothing can tear us apart again.

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Research for the third Alumière sisters’ adventure (The Squared Circle, coming soon!) revealed this week that evergreen hit “Yes! We Have No Bananas” entered the public domain in the US in 2019.

So now anyone can sing it!