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KEVIN PENTALOW: Last Words

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Blood worked in refining the ritual: I stopped aging!

However, I repent these sins.

Now the only life I take is my own, ensuring the ceremony dies with me. One virtuous short life is worth a hundred long lives of evil.

Goodbye, world I have known longer than anyone else.

Fr. Kevin Pentalow is an Orthodox Catholic priest and a published writer and poet. He contributes many articles to local papers, international blogs, and magazines. Through his writing he won the NPR short fiction award of 2002, among other accolades. Reverend Pentalow is also a high-level Scottish rite freemason and has written extensively for masonic publications. He is also a well-respected icon painter, a musician, known for his diverse music projects.

ANI KING: Furies

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My mom said I was being ridiculous, but she hadn’t seen us gather the leaves and bones and words for our spell.

Our incantation was precise and perfect.

All of us feigned surprised when Annie Taylor was hit by a car after her summer of tormenting my sisters and me.

Ani King is a pen stealer, notebook hoarder, unreliable knitter, and obsessive reader.