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Blood Month, 1979

The world doesn't stop when someone dies. You want it to. You damned well pray it will. But it doesn't. It just keeps going.

Short StoriesAllie AstellOctober 31, 2019Creative Non Fiction, Crossover, Rites of Passage, Periods, My Little Red Book, Middle Grade

Dragonchild

Embla woke up shaking and afraid. The moon pushing into the small window of her bedroom threw the beams against the ceiling like the bones of a broken rib-cage.

Short StoriesAllie AstellOctober 31, 2019Dragons, Grandmother, Rites of Passage, Middle Grade, Family, Shapeshifting