Found 35 works tagged 'Family'.
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From Cradle to the Beast
Published Mar 30, 2021 · 1,668 words (7 minutes) · 35 views
Fantasy magic Family shapeshifting witches elements
A sneak peek into an ongoing story, a YA witch-themed fantasy. "You can't keep those memories when they're not yours to keep!" Four young sisters, and elemental witches, embark on a perilous journey to discover the truth about their mother's murder, entering a parallel reality where their minds are not their own.
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Cold Currents
Published Jul 16, 2020 · 1,109 words (5 minutes) · 1 like · 193 views
Fantasy Historical Family suicide historical fantasy slipstream literary fantasy
Otto's ghosts are more real than most, and are dangerous even though they only want to love him.
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We Have Always Lived in the Hamlet
Published Jun 19, 2020 · 2,309 words (9 minutes) · 298 views
Science Fiction Family space travel Sisters
Toni Morrison said, “A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves—a special kind of double.” In this story, a sister filled with wanderlust and another anchored at home find themselves in a life-long struggle to come to terms with each other.
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The Land of Stone and Stars
Published Dec 9, 2019 · 4,287 words (16 minutes)
Fantasy Science Fiction coping Quest fairy tale quests Family fable death alien planets
Crushed by the loss of his only daughter and last surviving family member, Jackrabbit knows what he must do: venture to the permanently dark side of his homeworld, "the land of stone and stars," so he can find his daughter's spirit among the dead and bring her back before she ascends with the others into the sky. But the journey across the extremes of the planet's habitable zones is hard and bewildering, and for Jackrabbit to succeed, he must lose even more.
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The Thirty-Eight-Hundred Bone Coat
Published Dec 1, 2019 · 8,408 words (31 minutes) · 516 views
Fantasy Family bones diving money anxiety
Navid is a bone-diver, and he will risk body and soul in the black river for a chance to lift his family to wealth and security beyond their trade.
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A PERPETUAL STATE OF AWE
Published Nov 28, 2019 · 2,263 words (9 minutes) · 464 views
Literary Fiction snowstorm Family fema jen knox short story eco fiction storm story
We count to three and pull hard to gain an inch of light. The ice around the door gives, and a clump of snow is released. The fresh air feels nice for a moment, before it begins to bite at our cheeks. Yesterday’s snow is now an undercoat, and the powdery top layer glistens.
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Light Breaking on Glass
Published Nov 3, 2019 · 6,861 words (25 minutes) · 1 like · 500 views
Fantasy Literary Fiction feels Family cancer short story Grief body horror
Gideon spent years watching the disease take his grandfather's body one piece of glass at a time. Now, struggling to come to terms with his grandfather's death, Gideon must deal with the fact that his own body is slowly succumbing to the same fate. Content warning for self-harm.
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Picture Day
Published Oct 13, 2019 · 2,517 words (10 minutes)
Literary Fiction Family siblings death coping twins
Clumsy, messy Nick and his twin Annie owe their mother one last act: a professional, studio portrait of themselves in clean clothes that fit, so they have a record of looking nice "for once". But can doing something that comes unnaturally ever be an authentic act of love?
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Where Gods Dance
Published Oct 11, 2019 · 1,244 words (5 minutes) · 1 like · 573 views
Fantasy Horror Sorrow Monsters father and son Grief magic fatherhood Family loss parenting tragedy memory obsession death
Originally published in the March 2019 issue of Apex Magazine (issue 118), it's a flash piece about a father's obsessive and insatiable grief over the loss of his son, and where his grief takes him as he's unable to move beyond it.
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Catching the Train
Published Sep 15, 2019 · 879 words (4 minutes) · 9 likes · 1393 views
Fantasy Horror Family Grief trains
A woman heads out on a business trip, no different from any other. So why can’t she remember getting on the train? Author Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and translator living just outside Vancouver. Her work has appeared in Flash Fiction Online, Shimmer, Cast of Wonders, and many others. Can’t get enough creepy stories? Don’t miss our other highlighted ghost stories this week!
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