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Terrye Turpin
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The Imposter: And Other Stories
The Imposter: And Other Stories

This story collection leads the reader through a world or horror and humor, from the top of an Appalachian Mountain to worlds beyond the stars.

2020

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Terrye Turpin
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Welcome to my Profile

Here’s where you can find out more about my writing — Hello and welcome to my Medium profile page. You can scroll down and see more of my work here on the site — a mix of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. I write other places too, and I’m working on my first novel. If you’d like to join me on…

Fiction

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Welcome to my Profile
Welcome to my Profile
Fiction

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May 5

Abandoned, But Not Forsaken

Exploring the Old Zoo Nature Trail in Cisco, Texas — There is something about deserted spaces that draws out the explorer in me. Horror fan that I am, I know these are the spots where the paranormal linger. I would trespass into every vacant house if it weren’t for the threat of arrest. Instead, I feed my curious spirit with…

Travel

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Abandoned, But Not Forsaken
Abandoned, But Not Forsaken
Travel

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Mar 24

Everyone’s Taste is Not Your Own

When Yelp Reviews Lead You Astray The past has flavor. It tastes like cherry popsicles melting red down your arm on a hot summer day. It might taste like Saturday night at home, watching the movie of the week and eating pepperoni pizza. The kind from a box kit, with…

Travel

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Everyone’s Taste is Not Your Own
Everyone’s Taste is Not Your Own
Travel

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Mar 5

Time Travel in Ladonia Texas

This past weekend Andrew and I drove out to the Ladonia Fossil Park. We’d been there before, during Covid. I remembered the solitude and peacefulness of strolling beside the North Sulphur River.

Roadtrip

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Time Travel in Ladonia Texas
Time Travel in Ladonia Texas
Roadtrip

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Hinged

·Sep 24, 2022

The King of the Wasps

The world is cruel to gentle boys. I knew from the moment I met Richie Taylor that he didn’t belong in East Texas. He came to us not long after the school year had started, before the first football game and after we’d traded our memories of summer for dreams…

Hinged

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The King of the Wasps
The King of the Wasps
Hinged

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Sep 11, 2022

A Lovely Home with a Wonderful View

I dumped a shovel of dirt over the body. The corpse in question, a dead rat, stared at me with a glazed eye before I covered it with a quart of potting soil. Miracle Grow, guaranteed for beautiful blooms. I hope nothing sprouts from this planting. The rat expired less…

Nature

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A Lovely Home with a Wonderful View
A Lovely Home with a Wonderful View
Nature

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Aug 26, 2022

Dealing with Triffids

And other creeping horrors — I learned the other day that Pothos is also called Devil’s Ivy. The poisonous nature of its leaves inspires that name, surely undeserved. Pothos are very hard to kill. I can testify to their hardiness. During the lock down days of Covid, I abandoned a pot of ivy. Left to…

Home

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Dealing with Triffids
Dealing with Triffids
Home

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Aug 19, 2022

The Dead Man’s Switch

The last train travels fast — He opened his eyes to a world gone red. Somewhere nearby a woman sobbed, her keening cries almost drowned out by the chug and clack of a locomotive. The man, forty-two-year-old Roy Ellis, sat up and wiped the blood from his face. Gingerly, he probed the wound on his scalp…

Fiction

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The Dead Man’s Switch
The Dead Man’s Switch
Fiction

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Aug 7, 2022

A Mischief of Rats

Trouble in the garden — The bunnies were cute until they began dining on my asparagus. Squirrels raided the bird feeders but they were cute and their antics fun to watch so we forgave them. A creek borders our back yard, making us a way station for all sorts of wild life. We’ve had raccoons…

Horror

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A Mischief of Rats
A Mischief of Rats
Horror

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Jul 29, 2022

What Comes Back

Sometimes they never leave — The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. I was twelve years old that year, in 1972, the year Nixon went to China and his buddies broke into the Watergate hotel. …

Fiction

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What Comes Back
What Comes Back
Fiction

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