Cassidy Barker

Joined March 2021

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Runner-Up in If Walls Could Talk

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Rest Area. Content Warning.
Landry preferred driving at night. Less cars on the road, and the drivers of the ones that were had an understanding. She crumpled her burger wrapper and tossed it toward the windshield. Another car calmly passed her on the left.
By Cassidy Barker5 months ago in Fiction
Broken Seals
I’ve had a lot of action. Most of it from the same person, but every now and then I get fresh with someone else. So, I’m not complaining.
By Cassidy Barker2 years ago in Fiction
86'd
“She’ll be replaced by tomorrow.” “Dude…” Nick looked over his shoulder in disgust at his longtime barback, Luke. “It was a joke. You know. Because we’re all just numbers to management and –”
By Cassidy Barker2 years ago in Fiction
In a Bar
My hands pour your beer I wash them in the bathroom You know I just peed
By Cassidy Barker2 years ago in Poets
The First Time. Content Warning.
I like to think I’m seeing a part of you that nobody else ever has, nor ever will. Maybe in another life… but here our relationship is special, never to be replicated.
By Cassidy Barker2 years ago in Fiction
Vanity
The mirror showed a reflection that wasn’t my own. I left that carcass behind a good bit ago. Yeah, maybe what I’ve been doing isn’t moral. You wouldn’t be so judgmental if you saw the things I’ve seen, if you knew what was chasing me. The only way to stay safe is to keep moving, so that’s what I’ve been doing. I guess this is my confession. And I truly hope it helps.
By Cassidy Barker3 years ago in Fiction
My Soft Spot. Runner-Up in If Walls Could Talk.
“If walls could talk.” Yeah. People say that all the time. But do they ever listen? We rumble and fall, creak and groan. We crack and ache, listening to the mundane and the weird, the exciting, the pitiful, without any choice in the matter.
By Cassidy Barker3 years ago in Horror
We Need Help
If walls could talk, I’d ask for a window. And maybe a bulldozer. Someone else needed to see everything I saw, but at this point, I'm trapped. Walls are supposed to make people claustrophobic, not the other way around. A girl named Cameron was the bane of my existence. I have love for her, the frustrating kind that comes with time and proximity to a person. The kind of love some family members had for each other, only in those cases, they have a chance to get away to let the fondness grow. If you can’t get away from someone like that, you suffocate.
By Cassidy Barker3 years ago in Fiction
Live
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. Once, she would not go into his room at all, so the glimpse was even less than a shimmer.
By Cassidy Barker3 years ago in Fiction
The Hum
My dog will bark at something as innocuous as a buzzing fly, and by the sound of it, there’s a group of flies who found something exciting, maybe a pile of dog droppings from my thoughtless neighbor, outside my door.
By Cassidy Barker3 years ago in Fiction
Fish Food
Bloodworms make for a good source of protein, sure, but the sharks at Midland Aquatic had additional serving options, off the menu.
By Cassidy Barker3 years ago in Criminal
Granite
I was always good at waking up in a hurry. It’s like my body could sense any shift in the environment. I never had to do the yawn and stretch bit. I could switch from off to on it half a second, from laying down to standing or sitting straight up, eyes wide and alert.
By Cassidy Barker3 years ago in Humans