Category: You, Implicated
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What Bothers You?
A story by Sebastian Pearce based on the WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: You tell people it’s the small things that bother you. The way your coworker clicks her pen during meetings. How your neighbor leaves his garbage cans out two days past pickup. The sound of people chewing with their mouths open.…
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Ten Certainties
A story by Sebastian Pearce based on the WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: You sit at your desk, pen hovering over the blank paper. The assignment seems simple enough: list ten things you know to be absolutely certain. Your therapist insists this exercise will help ground you after the accident, help you separate…
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Comfort Strategies
A story by Sebastian Pearce based on the WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: You wake at 6:47 AM, three minutes before your alarm. This is strategy number one: train your circadian rhythm to anticipate necessity. No jarring sounds, no cortisol spike. Just the gentle emergence from sleep like surfacing from warm…
Sebastian Pearce - Flash fiction with an Edge 