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She had to dig to the bottom of her purse to find the key, her fingers sliding past her hospital badge and gum wrappers until she felt the thick Blockbuster keychain from her first job. A cat was curled up on the welcome mat in front of the door, asleep.“Oh! Hi, kitty,” she said. The cat weaved through her legs, nuzzling her shins, meowing softly. “Excuse me,” she said, gently, as if the cat might understand. “I just need to squeeze past you.”The cat slipped to the side just enough for her to unlock the door. The key scraped once before it s...
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Content Warning: This story contains depictions of animal death, emotional/verbal abuse, exploitation/coercive control, and bodily harm. Author’s Note: “Withering Returns” is a dark fairy tale inspired by Aesop’s “The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs,” written from the goose’s perspective and filtered through the prose style of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.Act I.The knife has come and gone. The deepest life within me withdrew and left no echo behind. Death did not move me from this place. I remain. The farmhouse still stands on the hill, ...
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