Barakah Smith
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Author of "Stranger in a Familiar Place", Barakah Smith is a lover of fantasy fiction. She is currently working on her second novel and is an avid gamer as well.
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Those almond-colored eyes should have been familiar. Along with the musky cologne, the creases in his forehead, the way he fidgeted when he was nervous…yeah it should have been familiar. It wasn’t. The man, whom I hadn’t seen in twenty years, called me up out of the blue to meet at a diner. I used to like this diner, but that was when I was five. The last time I can remember both of them being with me.
By Barakah Smith5 years ago in Fiction
The Blood Oath
The last box crashed to the floor with a hard clank, making me wince at the possibility of having just broken something important. I sighed, too tired to open the box and survey any damage and just left it. The sun had long since set, and even with every light on in the house, this place was alien and creepy. My uncle had been a weird sort. He collected odds and ends, books of different folklore, bottles of unidentifiable body parts big and small, and just about anything else you could imagine. To say he was quite obsessed with what he generally referred to as “the Fae” was an understatement. His house reflected that obsession with wall-to-wall hand-drawn diagrams, notes, books, bugs, and of course an array of dirty dishes left sporadically where he had placed them. We had not been particularly close but I did spend three summers with him a long time ago. Back then, his work had fascinated me, though to be fair what child wouldn’t have been fascinated by the idea that the Fae exist? After that third summer my parents never allowed me to go back, said they didn’t want my uncle filling my head with nonsensical ideas of fairies. This led to me attending more science camps that I could shake a stick at, heavily influencing my decision to attend med school for general practice.
By Barakah Smith5 years ago in Futurism
