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Wives. Content Warning.
Bethan waited for the woman to respond but she stood, back to her. Bethan was unsure what to do, but eventually, she decided to get up and go over to her rescuer. Gingerly, Bethan rose, her head pounding and her body trembling. Standing, she paused to breathe deeply.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Christine
I should answer her but the fact of what I've just had to do is sinking in. I get up with a groan. Dave is still out for the count and there's no blood. I must have hit him in just the right place to knock him out but he won't stay like that forever. What has your life come to when you're tying the hands of the person you love behind his back to stop him from hurting you or another?
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Belt. Content Warning.
Bethan's question is met with silence. For a minute, she thinks that she has been left and she feels a stab of fear that Dave could come to any minute and finish her off. If he is able to. She's not sure which eventuality she is more scared of.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Contemplation
Bethan tried to still her shaking hands. Dave stared off, meditatively, still. He was right on the edge. Dave It all comes back to here. I should've known that it would catch up with me eventually. But so many years passed and the veil was never lifted...
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
The Vanishing Queen: The First Chronicle
The river ran backwards on the day the Queen vanished. Pandemonium ensued. "It is an ill omen!" the people cried, wailing and wringing their hands in fear. And quite rightly, as never mind the superstitious implications of sinister powers at work and things being awry in the world, made manifest in nature's reversal, the river's flow change posed problems, as it was a practical nightmare.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Arrival
"I had no idea this was here," Bethan says in wonder. "No," Dave says. He likes this space, liked this space. Now, it's going to hold memories of too many bad things. He won't want to come back much in future. He is scanning the area to see if anyone else is here but it is just them, him and Bethan.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Accusation. Top Story - November 2024.
Dave and Bethan walked in the direction of the quarry, Bethan letting Dave lead. "I don't know how you can think that I killed her, Bethan." Dave acknowledged to himself that he's not a great man but he's still reeling from Bethan's accusation.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
