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Thaumatrope is a twitter fiction magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror fiction under 140 characters - edited by @nelilly.

Thaumatrope is a twitter fiction magazine for
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror fiction
under 140 characters—edited by @nelilly.

stories

February 12th, 2010

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Their ship erupts as I bite your lip. Weightless blood-beads cloud your neck. Come, take my last breath. Who says terrorists can’t love?

A skull with white flame hair grinned at her. Empty eye sockets glinted. “No one cheats on me and gets away, you’re my wife, not his.”

I lost my balance during the jump, so my first glimpse of Earth in weeks came from the cockpit floor, held in my lover’s warm gooey embrace.

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