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The Ache of Hollow Places

ShortStory 6,799 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source

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"Valentini doesn’t flinch when the purple-bellied storm shakes the house, heedless of the film being shot within its derelict husk. Scene fifteen, take three. The Hollow Places crew rushes to stop the windows’ skeletal rattling before the atmospheric pressure breaks into a deluge."

Psychological HorrorQueer IdentityMetafictional

More tags 15

HorrorDreadVisceralDark FantasyGuiltUnsettlingFragmentedFound FamilySpeculative FictionTraumaDarkLyrical ProseContemporaryClose Third PersonGrief And Loss

Content warnings 3

child-deathgoreself-harm

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