Taylor Malais
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I'm a cat-owning, book-loving, chronologically misplaced hermit. I've started half a dozen books and will finish them as soon as someone finds where "I dropped me brain". In the meantime, here are some scribbles.
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A Verdant Legacy. Runner-Up in The Mystery Box Challenge.
Bleak. Normally, Cheryl loved overcast weather like today; the soft tones of light, the crisp air—the perfect setting for a cozy read by the fire. Comparatively, today’s lighting was a harsh, tin gray, the air dull like a cold, gray office cubicle. She put the kettle on for what seemed like the umpteenth time that morning but could only have been the third and paced her kitchen—which was really her whole studio—arms crossed and tucked beneath her coziest sweater. This was not how she wanted to be spending her vacation.
By Taylor Malais3 years ago in Fiction
Son of a Dragon
My mother once told me that humans are greedy, violent, ungrateful creatures who never think. Never think about what they’re doing or what will happen after. The bedtime stories she told me were terrifying: a young human boy was gifted magic beans for his sick ox. Instead of sharing the beans and feeding his starving mother, he climbed the beanstalk, stole from the sky giants, and even killed one of them. A pair of children were abandoned by their selfish parents in the woods. They get taken in by a kind old woman living alone in the forest. She feeds them her best saved treats and in return, they kill her to have all the rest of the food to themselves.
By Taylor Malais3 years ago in Fiction
