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Laura Nettles
IMAGINATION & ILLUMINATION


I started a Substack!
I have started a substack. https://lauranettles.substack.com/ I've decided to share the post I made for it today here as well. Here we...
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Nov 20, 20222 min read
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Flash Fiction Live 3/26/2022
Today was Flash Fiction Live on Chandra Arthur's YouTube channel. We had a blast writing to two prompts incorporating 10 specified words...
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Mar 26, 20226 min read
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The Perfume Lingers
I was hanging out in a YouTube livestream tonight when a question was asked: "How do you show a person has trauma without outright...
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Mar 12, 20222 min read
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Fairy Godmother
My flash fiction piece "Fairy Godmother" is now published and available to read online at Frost Zone Zine. Woot!...
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Mar 8, 20221 min read
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Liberated
Water drips down my neck form the hewn rock ceiling as I enter the recently liberated crypt. War crimes are the rumors...
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Mar 21, 20212 min read
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Mangled Graveyard
Heart in my throat I scream, but the people outside take no notice over the din of crumpling metal. The smashing of cars. I’m in a trunk.
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Mar 6, 20212 min read
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Dress Seams
The magic dust faded as the gown finished its transformation, it’s gossamer layers more intricate than the night sky.
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Feb 25, 20212 min read
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Rust
Her hair was the color of rust. So was her skin. And nails. And the hollowed-out sockets where her eyes should have been.
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Feb 20, 20212 min read
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Lunar Child
Here is another horror flash fiction. Short yet suspenseful. Subtitles are available, but I have pasted the whole story below.
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Jan 28, 20212 min read
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Soul Eater
I have posted my flash fiction for Orla Hart's Authortube Anthology Vol 2! It is called Soul Eater and is horror. Subtitles are...
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Jan 24, 20214 min read
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Neighbors
Mr. and Mrs. Maud were even madder than one who had read the Necronomicon cover to cover, twice.
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Jan 20, 20213 min read
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Cthulhu Rises
From the depths of the sea, Cthulhu opened his brine-soaked eyes. It was time. The thermal vents warming his ancient abode stopped...
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Jan 19, 20212 min read
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