Welcome, my name is Jayde Holmes, and I write science fiction. Make yourself comfortable and feel free to browse. I have stories you can read for free here on My Story Page.
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Check out this month’s featured story:
Collective
By Jayde Holmes
cw: body horror, depression and severe hopelessness, characters try to prevent their own existence
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He was six when his great-great-great-grandmother came to live with the family and he loved her. Her presence made him feel like he was in one of those happy families from the old movies. He’d liked Biggest Nana well enough as a human when he’d talked to her at the morgue, but he’d always wanted a puppy. He’d learnt early though that there weren’t enough resources for pets that didn’t used to be people these days, and he loved that Biggest Nana had found a way around that.
He was ten when Biggest Nana died, which was old enough to understand what was happening and be hopeful. For three days in a row, he went to the weed-filled park at the centre of their identical grey cube house neighbourhood, but he didn’t play with the other kids on the playground. Instead, he went to the small grassy area where he and Biggest Nana had played, and ran around, imagining her beside him as an animal spirit.
A month later Mum came home shaking and confirmed that Biggest Nana had been spotted in hell.
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