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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

Published in Hinged

·Mar 19

The Lover’s Locket

When a gift is a warning — If Mina had knelt at any other gravestone, she would have missed the locket. She was working on restoring the moss-covered tombstone of Adeline Coombs. The locket lay wedged in the grass at the base of the monument, its gold chain glinting in the late afternoon sun. She eased it…

286

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The Lover’s Locket
The Lover’s Locket

Published in Hinged

·Mar 12

No Dogs Nor Humans Here

Our pain makes us who we are — I couldn’t put it off any longer. I would have to tell him the truth. That morning, while my android assistant, Arnie, ran through his usual cleaning routine, he found the dog toy under the bed. I thought he’d make the connection. Instead, his carefully composed face stayed in the…

Hinged

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No Dogs Nor Humans Here
No Dogs Nor Humans Here

Published in Hinged

·Oct 23, 2021

Charon’s Rowboat is Missing

By the time Charon realized someone had taken his rowboat, there were twenty-two souls stacked on the banks of the River Styx. “You’ll have to ferry them over somehow,” Hades, his boss, commanded. “We can’t have them backing up like that. Don’t want folks to get the wrong idea about…

Hinged

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Charon’s Rowboat is Missing
Charon’s Rowboat is Missing

Published in Hinged

·Oct 16, 2021

Bad Neighbors

Fences can’t hide all their secrets — I’ve heard it said that good fences make good neighbors. If that’s true, I suppose the opposite must be as well. Bad fences make for bad neighbors. The guy who moved in next to Miss Dianna wasted no time putting up a fence. It was chain link, cobbled together from…

Hinged

8 min read

Bad Neighbors
Bad Neighbors

Published in Hinged

·Oct 9, 2021

Heart Like a Bruise

There’s nothing as dangerous as a lover betrayed — There are five ways to tell if your boyfriend is a vampire. I can think of only three ways to tell if he’s cheating on you. First, he starts keeping secrets from you. I can’t always tell when Derrick’s lying, but I try to keep my eyes open. …

Hinged

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Heart Like a Bruise
Heart Like a Bruise

Published in Hinged

·Sep 25, 2021

Long Exposure

The day before her twentieth wedding anniversary, Doreen Clark traveled alone to the Excelsior Hotel, where ghosts were rumored to roam the halls. …

Hinged

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Long Exposure
Long Exposure

Published in Hinged

·Sep 18, 2021

Curtain Call

The stage is forever — The way it started, I just wanted someone to like me. I wanted to have friends. I wanted to be more than that weird kid who lived with his grandmother above an abandoned movie theater. When people looked at me, they saw a scrawny boy with shaggy brown hair whose…

Hinged

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Curtain Call
Curtain Call

Sep 17, 2021

Hitcher

We don’t always see the evil inside — They picked up the hitchhiker outside Salado, Texas. Twelve-year-old Kenny, his head hanging out the window like a dog’s, was the first to spot the blind man. He stood on the gravel embankment at the edge of the highway, nothing around him — no gas stations, no fast-food places, no…

Horror

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Hitcher
Hitcher

Published in Hinged

·Aug 28, 2021

The Cry at Cliff’s Edge

On the first anniversary of her daughter’s death, Ginny Stroud drove to the sea. In her late thirties, Ginny had dark brown hair that she kept clipped close to her scalp, like a young boy’s. A thick scar, twisted and rose-pink, traced from her scalp down the side of her…

The Weekly Knob

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The Cry at Cliff’s Edge
The Cry at Cliff’s Edge
Terrye Turpin

Terrye Turpin

Find more about Terrye on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20175116.Terrye_Turpin Email: terrye.turpin@gmail.com

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