Penny Dreadful ☠️ 🦑🧜‍♀️

58 yo cis-gender queer woman from a little town in New Jersey. Medical editor by day. Love animals and all things creepy. Inside my brain you’ll find dinosaurs, haunted houses, spaceships, dancing skeletons, and fudge sundaes. She/her.

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The Perfect Murder

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“Well look at that,” Esmé said. “Never thought I’d see that happen.”

“Yup,” Jorgé answered.

They were sitting on the bench, observing.

“All of them?” Esmé asked.

“Every one.” Jorgé was eating pizza-flavored Combos. Esmé lunched on an avocado-sprout sandwich.

Esmé nodded.

Together, they watched the crows huddling together, picking at bits of leftover flesh from the ground....

Drama

Last Thoughts Of The Astronaut

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That was it. The crew tried to snag him when the cable snapped, but it was hopeless. He started spinning and kept spinning, no friction to stop him.

Spinning back in time. On the swingset in his backyard in Iowa. Higher and higher he went. He would spend hours swinging, trying to touch the sky. One day he tried something new.

It started with a little push of his Buster Browns on the worn dirt ...

Drama

Science fiction

The Beacon

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There it was, finally.

The man collapsed in front of the structure after days of wandering. His feet bled through his worn shoes. Tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth.

Here he was to meet the ambassador who would pass him the sacred amulet.

The amulet would save the world.

As he lay gasping, a hand held the back of his head, and drizzled cool water into into his mouth. His eyes fluttered ...

Drama

Fantasy

Dialogue From The Dawn Of Mankind

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Head: Following one’s dreams is not smart. Dreams are an illusion.

Heart: but if we don’t have dreams how can we create anything? Feelings, passions, they show the way.

Head: think first, act later. Otherwise danger looms ahead.

Heart: we can work together. I’ll send my dreams to you at night, with no particular rhyme or reason, and it will be up to you to sort them out. Deal?

Head: I can d...

Poetry

Afternoon At The Moon Base Café

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“Drink?” He said. “Anything you like.”

The bartender swept his hand along the line of bottles. “We don’t have a lot but there’s enough to clear out the re-entry blues.”

“Scotch on the rocks,” she said.

Six months on this rock, she thought, and I had to run into *this* guy?

The bartender set her drink down. She grabbed it and took a sip. Synth Scotch. Better than nothing.

“I know this is aw...

Drama

Science fiction

Review: Just To Keep The Streak Going

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This author certainly has a way with words.

If you follow her prompt feed (and if not, WHY?), you’ll notice that she is obsessed with death, the supernatural, sci-fi, gothic lit, swords and sorcery, and Hallmark holiday movies. This alone makes one want to follow her!

But let me focus on this one piece: “Just to Keep the Streak Going.” It is a masterpiece of simplicity and frugality with words....

The Return

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Charley untwisted the bag of rolls and emptied them into the bowl.

“Hey, Uncle Chuck,” Nicole said, strolling into the kitchen, her flip-flops slapping on the linoleum.

He was still getting used to a grown-up Nicole. No longer the baby he once knew.

“Dinner is almost ready,” he said. “Phyllis is finishing up the burgers.”

***

The family sat around the fire pit, digesting their hot dogs, bur...

Drama

Pastry Thoughts

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Friday

I’m free

Well almost free

Still gotta work this

Gotta make the donuts still

I don’t make donuts as such

But you get my meaning I think

It’s break time, are there any more donuts?...

Poetry

Canning Day

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“I can’t believe you’re blaming ME,” Roma said. “All I did was grow. I didn’t ask to end up like this.”

“Urrrk,” Beefsteak grumbled. “I wish I hadn’t grown so big.”

“There’s not much we can do about it now,” Rutgers, always the thoughtful one, explained.

One by one, they were picked up by the mysterious creature standing by the pot of boiling water, and tossed in.

“I thought there was more t...

Fantasy

Humour

The Singularity

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In the beginning was the bang.

Infinite density and heat finally gave way to an explosion of massive proportions.

Galaxies, stars, planets, spun like cotton candy.

Among the galaxies, some planets of dense dead rock. Others sustaining life. Life that became sentient. Sentient life that became advanced, and destroyed themselves.

The dance of creation and destruction continuing to this day.

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