L.C. Schäfer
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Sometimes writes under S.E.Holz
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Privelege #13
The teacher flickered at the front of the classroom. She never got angry, never shouted. The closest she got was, "You know I will need to escalate this if you don't make the right choice." Occasionally it was, "This behaviour has triggered a call to the Leadership Team," or "That behaviour has triggered a call home."
By L.C. Schäfer11 months ago in Fiction
A Story Up My Sleeve
I'm nervous, which isn't like me. I never usually bother with being nervous. If you've been through what I have, it gives you some very useful perspective. If nerves do start to creep in, I have a surefire way to get them under control: tell a story. That's what I did. I have a belter, and it never fails me.
By L.C. Schäfer11 months ago in Fiction
Never Gonna Dance Again
It was something I'd done almost every day of my working life: pick up a sword, and wield it, and try not to die. l even enjoyed it at one point. I can't lie. The swell of the crowds behind me and under me was impossibly sweet. It thundered in my blood like a drug, and I was addicted to it alright.
By L.C. Schäfer11 months ago in Fiction
This is Medicine
I've seen this industry change over my lifetime. Tonight, after dinner, I nursed a brandy and reflected on that fact, and on my day. It occurred to me that today, a typical day actually, was oddly illustrative of the changes I'd seen in my lifetime.
By L.C. Schäfer11 months ago in Fiction
Hope
Winter had sunk her claws deep into the forest. With little else to do at the ebb of the year, she's wrapped herself in her pinny and retreated to her kitchen, to turn her cold hand to the art of patisserie. In the main, she favours simple, bold designs, and has blanketed this corner of the earth in thick snow.
By L.C. Schäfer11 months ago in Fiction
So Brave, So Proud (AKA Hero's Lament). Top Story - February 2025. Content Warning.
Tallulah should be smiling, because it's her fifth birthday. That means balloons, and cake, and presents. It's also Saturday, which means no school. And, thanks to what happened last week, every kid in her class wants to be at her party. Every kid in the school wants to be there, but the garden isn't quite that big.
By L.C. Schäfer12 months ago in Fiction
The Talk. Content Warning.
After all this time, I decided to finally tell my wife what really happened to all those missing girls. I say "girls", they were young women, of course. Some poncey intellectual with coloured hair will probably say I'm infantilising them. It seems silly to get stuck on that point given what else I did to them. Maybe that's what normal people do. Fixate on a bearable detail as a way of ignoring the unbearable one.
By L.C. Schäfer12 months ago in Fiction
