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Sanctuary (story by Ayiah Mensah)

August 31, 2024 periswriter

We hunt for shadows through the dark, hidey passages in the sixteenth-century building with a sloth as a walking partner.…

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Posted in: Creativity, Dark Humour, Fiction, Horror

Ma by Risa Peris (Flash Fiction)

June 3, 2024 periswriter

I kept scratching at the wound with a scaly scab. Ma kept yelling at me not to scratch. “It’ll leave…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

The Body (Story by Risa Peris)

March 17, 2020 periswriter

I had never seen a body hacked to pieces. I approached stealthily. Like a cat about to pounce on prey.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, History, Social Issues

Vials and Powder (Story by Risa Peris)

March 9, 2020 periswriter

New York City, 1901 From the Lab Book of Dr. Cranston Hastings, General Surgeon at Merriam Hospital. February 2 A…

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Posted in: Fiction, Mental Health

The Image in the Lake (Story by Risa Peris)

November 5, 2019 periswriter

Story based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 3 But if thou live, remembered not to be, Die single and thine image dies…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction Filed under: family, fiction

Dirge for the Unknown (Story by Risa Peris)

October 17, 2019 periswriter

  Mack the Knife was a dirge. Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin made it jazzy, catchy – an insidious song…

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Posted in: Fiction, Ghost Story

The Fire (Story by Risa Peris)

October 15, 2019 periswriter

The hay and crops were on fire, but I turned my back on the haunting flames. Men were flinging buckets…

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Posted in: Fiction, Relationships, Romance

The Moon and The Fish (Story by Risa Peris)

October 11, 2019 periswriter

He would encircle me in his arms and heft me up near shoulders. “The moon,” I would yell. It seemed…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family, Fiction

Cold (Story by Risa Peris)

October 9, 2019 periswriter

On a cold day, they stuck him in a cold coffin in the cold ground with the cold birds fluttering…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family, Fiction, Parenting

Is This Irony? (Story by Risa Peris)

October 7, 2019 periswriter

I dread teaching irony. My students were always confused and I was constantly trying to come up with a unique…

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Posted in: Fiction, Parenting, Relationships

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