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Isabelle Mccleary

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It Buzzes

Weekly Contest #372

Content warning: sibling death, corpse/decomposition imagery, blood and implied violence, grief, psychological distress, and disturbing sensory descriptions. The room buzzes. You can hear it from down the hall. I am not an animal, but the sound makes me want to rip the wings from their bodies, slowly. The smell, thick and pungent, calls to them. An aura that whispers to that desperate, primitive part of my brain to run. But I can’t run. I’m not an animal. The door seems far away, the hinges solid and unmoving, but eventually I manage to clo...

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The Ranger

Nina looked down at the village. Farmers tended their crops, children ran around squealing with delight, the woman of the village gossiped about each other. To them today was like any other day. Today would be the same as yesterday, and tomorrow would be the same as today. She remembered that feeling, the security and pleasure this life brought. Now she was returning, and everything was different. She frowned at the people below her, all they cared for was the next harvest, or the chores that always seem undone. The end of the world woul...

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