Melissa A Watkins
Nightmare
2026
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My foot is hidden under a pile of fallen leaves in a ditch near the highway. My hand, a mile or so away, buried under a shallow layer of dirt in what will be someone’s tulip bed next spring. My head—I don’t know where it is. Strange. Surely it’s what I’m...
Psychological HorrorJusticeDefiant
Content warnings 3
body-horrordeathviolence
Melissa A Watkins
Lightspeed
2026
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Everyone knows the Walls around the cities fell. What some people don’t remember is that the first one fell because of a laugh. It sounded like a ringing bell. Not like it came out of a baby at all. That was the first thing I told the scholar boy. He was a...
DystopiaCorporate PowerSlow Burn
Content warnings 2
racismviolence