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Year of the Tangram

ShortStory 5,946 words

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April It is in the floral heaviness of late-spring that his mother comes home and hands him the present. It fits well in the palms of his hands, neither too heavy nor too light. Perfectly square, perhaps—and later confirmed to be exactly—five inches wide by five inches tall, and a little less than an inch […] The post Year of the Tangram appeared first on GigaNotoSaurus .

Psychological HorrorTrans IdentityAmbiguous Ending

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DreadMagical RealismIntrospectiveUnsettlingFragmentedSpeculative FictionTraumaLyrical ProseMelancholicContemporaryBelongingFantasyClose Third PersonIdentity

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