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Amanda M. Blake

~ Of fairy tales and tentacles

Amanda M. Blake

Tag Archives: short story

“Courtship”

01 Wednesday Feb 2023

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chronic disease, crow's quill, death, gothic, morbid, personification of death, quill & crow, romance, short story, sick

My melodramatic, gothic short story “Courtship” about a sick woman’s flirtation with death is part of The Crow’s Quill Feb 2023 issue: Tragic Fates.

“Ragged”

01 Tuesday Nov 2022

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creepy doll, gothic, horror, ragdoll, short story, Writing

I’ve got my little grue-sad doll story “Ragged” in this month’s Toy Box Crow’s Quill – a great thematic bridge between Halloween and Christmas.

“Lullaby”

02 Sunday Oct 2022

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cemetery, crow's quill, cryptkeepers, halloween, horror, lullaby, lyrics, quill and crow, short story, slice of life

My slice-of-horror-life short story “Lullaby,” about a cemetery groundskeeper who tends the returning dead, is in this month’s Cryptkeeper issue of THE CROW’S QUILL. For a quiet Halloween read, go here.

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