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	Creases 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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For several years now I have been attempting to write poems and flash fiction. My early stuff was not good. Anyone who read Unsound Sounds could see that I didn’t have a voice, and I didn’t really know what I was doing with pieces so short. But I’ve been in the mental gym. I’ve been slogging away in front of the keyboard for many years, writing, rewriting, scrapping, starting again and s

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This is everything I love in a fantastical story, and more! The House Without Windows is a remarkable and radiant story that captures the unique, untamed essence of a child’s imagination. Written with an extraordinary control of language by an author ...more
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Rebecca Gransden’s Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs is a fantastic, unsettling collection that is a masterful blend of surreal horror and visceral dark fiction. From the grotesque, strained birth of the Turducken to the hauntingly meta-narrative of a ...more
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“Lila’s world may believe in Heaven and Hell, but his believed in dust. He was taught early that magic reclaimed magic, and earth reclaimed earth, the two dividing when the body died, the person they had combined to be simply forfeit, lost. Nothing lasted. Nothing remained. Growing”
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“It’s humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it’s a still poorer pass to have no one to depend on.”
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“There they sit, with everyone thinking no more of them than they might of a pretty odd lot of cabbages, yet half the time they’re pattering and clattering away at one another. Why? What is it they patter about? That’s what I want to know.’ I”
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“I was hiding from them even while I moved among them.”
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“But it is an inescapable conclusion that life has to be dynamic and not static. Change is bound to come one way or another.”
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