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The Cure for Loneliness

ShortStory 6,647 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources

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"I’m pretty sure I’m photosynthesizing. That’s what I mean when I say this year made me a real plant lady. I promise this isn’t another weird quarantine derangement thing, like losing track of time or holding conversations with taxidermy. I still need to eat, but not much. I rarely get hungry unless I stay indoors too long, and if that happens I can just munch down a raw potato and I’m fine again."

Folk HorrorBodily AutonomyUnreliable Narrator

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First ContactSlipstreamHorrorDarkly ComicUnsettlingSpeculative FictionTraumaIntimateUrbanWrySurvivalContemporaryBelongingFirst PersonGrief And LossVoice Driven

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