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Category: Fiction

First Maps

July 16, 2020 The Hellebore

Prehistoric maps were unfeigned, exquisitely etched in the ephemeral soil, by the dead, using sharp rocks, elegant index finger bones,…

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Posted in: Fiction, Issue Five: Black Moss Filed under: Dan A. Cardoza, Flash Fiction, Literary Magazine, The Hellebore Press

Home Fires Burning

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“I’ll be right back.” You slide awkwardly out of the booth, adolescent limbs a jumble beneath the table. When you…

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Posted in: Fiction, Issue Five: Black Moss Filed under: Flash Fiction, Literary Magazine, Marsha Timblin, The Hellebore Press

Refill

June 3, 2020 The Hellebore

According to a psychiatrist I saw when I was seventeen and had not yet contemplated suicide, only dying in general,…

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Posted in: Fiction, Issue Five: Black Moss Filed under: Blake Johnson, Flash Fiction, Literary Magazine, The Hellebore Press

Hauntings, Too, Transition

June 2, 2020 The Hellebore

When I hear that my cousin Tito is dead, I brace myself for the worst. We fought many times, Tito…

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Posted in: Fiction, Issue Five: Black Moss Filed under: Literary Magazine, Samir Sirk Morato, Short Stories, The Hellebore, The Hellebore Press

Losing Games

December 31, 2019 The Hellebore Leave a comment

Amy and I were making dinner the way we always did, me a whirlwind of utensils and her a dead…

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Posted in: Fiction, Issue Four: Bloodroot Filed under: Fiction, Literary Magazine, Short Story, Sophie Panzer, The Hellebore Press

Finding Home

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Death is not strange to you. You have lived on these streets where people died almost daily. Every day, due…

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Posted in: Fiction, Issue Four: Bloodroot Filed under: Fiction, Literary Magazine, Moyomade Aledasuyi, Short Story, The Hellebore Press

The Inner Circle

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When I was fifteen, my grandmother passed away. She lived a long life, the leading matron of our entire family…

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Posted in: Fiction, Issue Four: Bloodroot Filed under: Delvon T. Mattingly, Fiction, Literary Journal, Short Story, The Hellebore Press

Burrowed

September 18, 2019 The Hellebore Leave a comment

The iron kettle rattled on the wood-burning stove. Steam filled the room before Elizabeth rushed in with a towel knotted…

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Posted in: Fiction, Issue Three: Mind of Fur

Overturn

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Nothing here is the same thing twice in a row. Farmland is sowed and reaped, dirt roads turn to mud…

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Posted in: Fiction, Issue Three: Mind of Fur

Neon Dreams

May 3, 2019 The Hellebore Leave a comment

by Anastasia Arellano The red neon hotel sign illuminated the narrow street as Ruby exited the pick up truck. It…

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Posted in: Fiction, Issue Two: To Swallow the Sun Filed under: Anastasia Arellano, Fiction, Literary Journal, The Hellebore, The Hellebore Press

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