PseudoPod 851: Flash on the Borderlands LXIV: Purification

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PseudoPod 851: Flash on the Borderlands LXIV: Purification is a PseudoPod original. Candlemas: “February 2, 2023 is Candlemas. I’ve always had a thing for microfiction -tiny, jewel-like figures, acting out their passion play to the chiming of a pocket watch. Repetition seems to polish such tales, not wear them down, till they shine like fairy stories, eternally recommencing in some… Source

Cosmic Horror Mortality American South

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Folk Horror Second Person Psychological Horror Fragmented Consciousness Dread Unsettling Tense Horror Sacrifice Lyrical Prose Contemplative Survival Contemporary Voice Driven

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death

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

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