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  • Chapter 1 – A night under the stars

    An ejection from a town always hurt Mr. Chubs in a way he found difficult to describe. It evoked in him all the failures he had thought he had outrun…but that was a can of worms best left to its own devices.

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  • Volume 1 of Finish the story collaboration had been super fun and volume 2, with new prompts and new stories, is hopefully going to prevent me from going into hibernation after the adrenaline ride that is the AtoZ.

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  • Finish the story collaboration – an introduction

    When you are freshly off the Alexa high, you want to take a well-deserved break from writing and blogging. And then when someone sends you an email to onboard you for a fiction collaboration, what do you say but yes? The concept is quite simple: each of the collaborators has written a story prompt and…

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  • Vol. 1 Issue #8: Night and day

    Fire and pain. Screams. Did they belong to the people she had killed? Or did they belong to her? Where did she end and they begin? Was Abhor a part, perpetrator or god of this living hell?

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  • Vol. 1 Issue #7: Mirroring

    Vol. 1 Issue #7: Mirroring

    It was the knowledge that Abhor was recruiting an army that finally pushed Shades to drop all pretences of being Sarla and once again take up the personality of her alter-ego. Suddenly she had access to not only all her powers but also her anger and the drive to make a difference. As Sarla she…

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  • Vol. 1 Issue #6: The darkness

    Sarla was leaning over Gauri, feeling panicked. Though she looked okay, there was no way to be sure if Gauri was still Gauri till she woke up. She saw her stirring and felt relieved. “Lemon, how are you feeling my child?” Gauri felt like she had just finished doing twenty squats in gym class. She…

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  • Vol. 1 Issue #5: Helcynth

    Vol. 1 Issue #5: Helcynth

    Sarla had lost track of time. From the outside, the breach in the mountain had looked finite. The way Abhor’s general had described it, a place you could reach within a few minutes. Now it seemed like they had been on this path for eons and would never find its end. A panic set in…

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