Author: Amy DeBellis
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Final Ingredient
The first sentence is all you need for a hook: “Dinner service is such a rush that it takes us a while to notice the dead cook.” It’s another sub-5 minute read that might haunt your dreams, or at least your next meal out.
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Possession
I don’t believe that my husband is dead. The dead cannot walk, but every night he shuffles into our bedroom and lies down next to me, swamping me with his exhale of stale corpse air, breathing with lungs that I know are as black and wrinkled as rotten plums. His smell cloying like the flowers…
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Camera Obscura
A young woman’s boyfriend takes her to a party full of his old friends. The host, Sam, is a girl, and it’s unclear if the boyfriend deliberately withheld that fact.