DÆDALUS Magazine

“Martin is convinced his wife has been replaced by a doppelganger. When the paramedics got here he had a knife in his hand and was screaming that he wouldn’t let her hurt his children.”

Categories: Fiction, Writing • Tags: amwriting, books, boxed set, Fiction, Historical Romance, Kindle, Mystery, reading, Rebecca Lovell, Serial, short story

“Belinda hated Thursdays. The rest of the week wasn’t a cakewalk – handfuls of pills three times a day, watching more and more of her hair swirl away down the drain – but Thursdays were chemo days…”

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“The woman who was making him dinner was different than she had been the day before. He knew it as surely as he knew his name. Somehow she looked the same in the photographs that lined the hall, holding the children and smiling, and that was what made his mind hurt the worst.”

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“A gang of tiny, colorful fish flitted into their plants when he approached the tank and he pressed a finger to the glass, daring them to come out and savoring the power he held over them.”

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“The sounds stopped abruptly and he let his eyelids droop again. It wasn’t worth it. He’d take the scooper out the next morning and get rid of the evidence so he could spend another day pretending it wouldn’t happen again.”

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“It was perfect. Everything was going according to plan.Ten years. Ten years he had been planning, sitting on these feelings while he wove a protective cocoon around himself.”

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Scales Her breath came in waves that rocked her body in the water, making subtle ripples that disappeared as quickly as they formed. The room hummed around her but her ears were underwater so all she heard was her own breathing and the occasional movement of the water. Her body was air-light and colorless when she was in the pool, her arms outstretched as if to touch the edges of the marble that surrounded it. Her eyes were closed but […]

Categories: Fiction, Writing • Tags: amwriting, books, boxed set, Fiction, Historical Romance, Kindle, Mystery, reading, Rebecca Lovell, Serial, short story

“By the time she reached the bedroom she was completely naked and it seemed right to be standing in the most private of places, a blank slate to be filled with drawings and laughter by a woman who looked as if she hadn’t so much as cracked a smile in years.”

Categories: Fiction, Writing • Tags: amwriting, books, boxed set, Fiction, Historical Romance, Kindle, Mystery, reading, Rebecca Lovell, Serial, short story