Trauma can cause many changes to a person, and most of them can be explained by psychology, even healed with therapy. After my father passed away though, the change that occurred inside me was not one that could be explained. It wasn’t something...
2020-10-27 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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When you were little, you had an imaginary friend. Nothing unusual, lots of kids had imaginary friends. You came up with yours after seeing an image on a...
2020-10-27 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Trauma can cause many changes to a person, and most of them can be explained by psychology, even healed with therapy. After my father passed away though, the change that occurred inside me was not one that could be explained. It wasn’t something...
2020-10-26 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Sonja’s truck pulls up into the driveway and your excitement spikes again. All day you’ve been getting ready for this, cleaning, organizing, whatever you can to make the house look nice. The bed is made, not that it’ll matter, and you even g...
2020-10-26 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Every year, when the holidays come around, you get to paint the windows at work. Halloween is a big holiday in Hearthway Hollow, and spans the entire mon...
2020-10-26 19:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Sonja’s truck pulls up into the driveway and your excitement spikes again. All day you’ve been getting ready for this, cleaning, organizing, whatever you can to make the house look nice. The bed is made, not that it’ll matter, and you even g...
2020-10-23 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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It all starts at the beginning of August, well, it begins way before that actually. Planning for the pumpkin patch, as well as the corn maze, takes nearly all year to get right. From the end of Halloween until the following September, planning and...
2020-10-23 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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I decide to make blackberry preserves in a hurry, hoping I can get them done in time to send Thruun off with some. Maybe I’m being a bit delusional. Th...
2020-10-23 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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It all starts at the beginning of August, well, it begins way before that actually. Planning for the pumpkin patch, as well as the corn maze, takes nearly all year to get right. From the end of Halloween until the following September, planning and...
2020-10-22 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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I walked again, just as I had before. I knew I had to go further and further through the field, until my legs gave out, until my body ached. As it grew dark, I felt an end coming. The path would open and I would find somewhere safe for ...
2020-10-22 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The inn isn’t usually what I like, but the owner is a dear family friend and I do enjoy helping her out whenever possible. The work is tough, but I tel...
2020-10-22 19:02:24 +0000 UTC
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I walked again, just as I had before. I knew I had to go further and further through the field, until my legs gave out, until my body ached. As it grew dark, I felt an end coming. The path would open and I would find somewhere safe for me. Either ...
2020-10-21 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The ground was frozen over, crunching as I walked over it. Every so often, I felt as though something was watching me. I would turn and look around, only seeing an endless sea of tall grass behind me. The deeper I walked, the field turned from gra...
2020-10-21 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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It’s hard to imagine why they would leave this place in ruins. Fearing a curse doesn’t seem like the logical thing to do. Whether it was money, polit...
2020-10-21 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The ground was frozen over, crunching as I walked over it. Every so often, I felt as though something was watching me. I would turn and look around, only seeing an endless sea of tall grass behind me. The deeper I walked, the field turned from gra...
2020-10-20 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Some days people are there and some days they are not. This was something I had learned before I could even read, before I knew anything else of the world. I knew people had to go away and never come back. They walked into the field because that w...
2020-10-20 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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My mother didn’t know she was adopted until she got sick. Her parents never told her, and when she needed a donor, no one on her side of the family was...
2020-10-20 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Some days people are there and some days they are not. This was something I had learned before I could even read, before I knew anything else of the world. I knew people had to go away and never come back. They walked into the field because that w...
2020-10-19 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Having left Hearthway Hollow after high school, I wasn’t sure what coming back would be like. Sure, I came home often for holidays, but moving back and visiting are two different things. Things change though, and after one too many changes for m...
2020-10-19 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Things have been so hectic lately that Finn and I haven’t even been able to think of getting married. We have a ring, although I’ve not be...
2020-10-19 19:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Having left Hearthway Hollow after high school, I wasn’t sure what coming back would be like. Sure, I came home often for holidays, but moving back and visiting are two different things. Things change though, and after one too many changes for m...
2020-10-16 21:01:00 +0000 UTC
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In the last few months, fed up with your job and needing a break, you started offering computer services from your home. You recently got to do a pretty big job for a local accounting firm, so you had a few extra bucks to get some necessary things...
2020-10-16 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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I’ve become a frequent customer of Lene’s lingerie shop. Ever since the success of the first bra, I’ve gone back several times for more, and I’ve...
2020-10-16 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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In the last few months, fed up with your job and needing a break, you started offering computer services from your home. You recently got to do a pretty big job for a local accounting firm, so you had a few extra bucks to get some necessary things...
2020-10-15 21:01:01 +0000 UTC
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When your grandfather had passed away, you made sure to collect that old cigar box that had originally inspired Gentleman Jack. You had often gone back to it, hiding things inside for later. Everything was still intact, the pressed flower from the...
2020-10-15 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Okay, I have no clue what happened. Well, the posting of the “complete” works was my fault. But for some reason, posts from yesterday in the queue never posted? And I don’t know why. They’re posted now, but I’m still so sorry things were...
2020-10-15 19:24:57 +0000 UTC
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When you were little, you had an imaginary friend. Nothing unusual, lots of kids had lots of imaginary friends. You created yours after seeing an image on a box of cigars at your grandfather’s. You were bored, and it was raining out. Your grandf...
2020-10-15 19:23:33 +0000 UTC
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Hunting isn’t something I grew up doing. I’ve never actually had to. I grew up in the city, where the only things to hunt were pigeons and...
2020-10-15 19:01:01 +0000 UTC
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When your grandfather had passed away, you made sure to collect that old cigar box that had originally inspired Gentleman Jack. You had often gone back to it, hiding things inside for later. Everything was still intact, the pressed flower from the...
2020-10-14 21:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Every year, when the holidays come around, you get to paint the windows at work. Halloween is always such a big holiday in Hearthway Hollow, it encompasses the entire month of October. Right around the end of September, it begins. And not in the s...
2020-10-13 21:00:02 +0000 UTC
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