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PseudoPod 807: The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things

ShortStory 4,700 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

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PseudoPod 807: The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things is a PseudoPod original. I accept the house in lieu of a settlement. I don’t want Ashley’s dirty money. The house is the least ill-gotten thing she owns, an isolated property she won in a card game and forgot. We’ve never even been there. I’m hoping that the lack of shared memories will make it a perfect place to hole up while… Source

Psychological HorrorQueer IdentityUnreliable Narrator

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BleakHorrorDreadDark FantasySlow BurnUnsettlingBodily AutonomyTraumaMelancholicContemporaryBelongingFirst PersonIdentityCharacter Driven

Content warnings 3

abusedeathmental-illness

Quasar links out; the story lives on Pseudopod, where the author gets the click.