
Addison Alder
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Writer of Wrongs. Discontent Creator. Editor of The Gristle.
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Viscera. Top Story - August 2024. Content Warning.
It's pretty comfortable, this dentist's chair. Iโm cushioned by patent leather, and kept warm by the surgical sheets laid over me. Steel kidney dishes sit on the trolley next to me, their contents concealed beneath cloth.
By Addison Alderabout a year ago in Horror
The Shot and The Scream
Written for Raymond G. Taylor's "Girl With The Golden Earring" Unofficial Challenge. This is the penultimate chapter of the novel The Shot and The Scream. Journalist Missen Purdew is obsessed with The Scream โ a painting synonymous with madness. The artist, Edvard Munch, died in 1940, having never married and leaving many questions about his relationships and his sanity. Now, in 1948, Purdew's quest brings him to the person who knew Munch best, who was present for both 'the shot' and The Scream...
By Addison Alderabout a year ago in Art
Fierce Tears. Content Warning.
I don't know how, but, mother, you are alive again. I have mourned you for two years. I have wept and cursed at what happened to you. I have raged at the callous systems and careless politicians who created a living hell and then imprisoned you there, where your body curled and withered, a prison within a prison, condemned to a suffocating descent towards a choking death, terrified and alone.
By Addison Alderabout a year ago in Fiction
Sugar Crash
"Did I go overboard with the cakes?" Daphne says, angling her Battenberg next to her Victoria Sponge. We spent the morning festooning the riverboat with bunting and balloons. And now the cakes โ and the sun! โ are out. I can't imagine a more perfect day for the Windlesham Ladies High Tea and Boating Society's Annual Cake Bake.
By Addison Alderabout a year ago in Fiction












