AshedPotato

working on writing skills to cross over to my own personal projects! I will include sapphic women in everything when possible :)

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AshedPotato

working on writing skills to cross over to my own personal projects! I will include sapphic women in everything when possible :)

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What's a Ponzi Scheme?

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2 min read

"No, it's okay, you can trust us! Yeah, invest in us and we'll be sure to keep you updated on our product as it continues development." Alyssa pauses, hearing a confirmation from the customer that they'll send over the money shortly, and finishes off the call, "Thank you so much! Have a wonderful day."

Alyssa turns to her business partner and long-term girlfriend, Michelle, "We got another one."

"...

Crime

blind offering

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1 min read

belief in a person

only brings euphoria

if you are lucky...

Poetry

in the shelter of the moonlight

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1 min read

August wanders through the graveyard, searching for one certain gravestone. The one belonging to the person she cared about more than anything in the world. The one that had belonged to her wife.

August has to know what her final words were.

She'd been told that Viv had killed herself. She needs to know if those final words will explain why, hoping it has nothing to do with anything she's done. T...

Mystery

Thriller

The Prophecy of the End

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3 min read

After enough collecting, Brandy's kitchen looks less like a kitchen, and more like a psychic booth.

Crystals are scattered across the countertops, tarot cards sitting loose in empty pots, and a moon cycle chart hangs above the center of the kitchen, draping just inches away from stovetops on either side.

Her employees will call her crazy behind her back. They'll joke about clearing the entire kit...

Humour

The Dead Musicians’ Support Group

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3 min read

“Hey, everyone!”

Jay calls out into the neutrally colored room, his ghostly form phasing through the door.

Each person in the room turns to look at him, their faces all shifting to confusion and horror.

The first thing Jay notices is that he doesn’t recognize any of these faces. The second thing he notices is that each of those faces appears to still be alive.

A middle-aged woman sitting in the cu...

Forgive Me

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3 min read

In the slight darkness, the pebbles appeared for a moment to look like coffee beans.

This is how Petra knows that she’s about to enter withdrawal again.

She forges her way through the darkened alleyway, fighting the delusions that shape the rocks in the ground into the very thing she craves.

Petra knows the way; she’s been consuming coffee beans for years. Usually, however, she’s on a high, so her...

Fantasy

Crime

please remember

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1 min read

often

all my energy is spent

making myself

the most.

I intentionally

exaggerate my characteristics

so that no part of me

goes unforgotten,

so that I am not forgotten.

wouldn’t want to

stick out as a weed

in a field

of wildflowers,

right?

wouldn’t want to

be so bland

they’ll pluck you right out

…right?

...

Poetry

off to the highest bidder

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1 min read

I’ve lost

everything.

each part of myself

auctioned off to

the one on the

highest pedestal.

and they still

ask for

more? somehow

my entire soul

doesn’t satiate their

hunger.

they ask me for help

because they

“don’t have the time.”

instead,

I make the time

for them....

Poetry

a silent alarm

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1 min read

The duck lands gracefully on the ocean water. The water ripples around it, sending its signal across the surface, making its way to those that lie beneath the water. Its wings flutter as it brings them in, sitting satisfied, buoyed by its feathers above the endless depths below.

And for a moment, it's peaceful. Everything is quiet, the water having settled below the duck as it rests.

It can all ch...

Horror

do they even know?

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2 min read

No one noticed I was gone.

2 years I was missing.

Let me reiterate that for you; I was missing for 2 entire years, and no one even noticed I wasn't there.

I was flying a solo mission, it was meant to test if the rumors about the Bermuda Triangle are actually true. Spoiler alert, they are, because my plane crashed. And the rescue mission took two years to find me.

You might say, oh, you just don't ...

Thriller