13 Drops of Blood – Launches 14th February 2021
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How to Deal with Stress
by Crystal L. Kirkham
A co-worker once asked me how I deal with a job that makes them want to gouge their eyes out.
“Well,” I explained, “a sensible person would give up the will to live, start stress eating away the pain, and then go home to drink themselves into a stupor.”
“Is that what you do?”
“No,” I said, “I’m not sensible.”
“So, what do you do?”
I smiled and pull a jar from the drawer of my desk. A dozen eyeballs stare at us from within the clear liquid. “I gouge out the eyes of the people who piss me off.”
Crystal L. Kirkham
Crystal L. Kirkham resides in rural Alberta. She’s an avid outdoors person, unrepentant coffee addict, part-time foodie, servant to a feline, and companion canines. She’s a multi-genre speculative fiction writer who believes in following the story where it takes her.
Find out more on her and her work at www.crystallkirkham.com
A Deal is a Deal
by Crystal L. Kirkham
Tonight, they celebrated her granddaughter’s sixteenth birthday. An adult by the standards of the ancients. Now, the river spirit demanded its sacrifice for the deal that Marie had made.
“Annalise?” Marie’s voice cracked with emotion. “Can you fetch some water?”
“Of course.”
Marie watched her leave before calling to her granddaughter. “Let’s go inside.”
Neither of them needed to hear the screams. Her granddaughter may be an adult, but Marie would watch over her and her daughters after her. She’d protect them all until they came of age and their mother had to be sacrificed so Marie could live on.
Crystal L. Kirkham
Crystal L. Kirkham resides in rural Alberta. She’s an avid outdoors person, unrepentant coffee addict, part-time foodie, servant to a feline, and companion canines. She’s a multi-genre speculative fiction writer who believes in following the story where it takes her.
Find out more on her and her work at www.crystallkirkham.com