Fatal Serendipity
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Fatal Serendipity writes flash, micro, speculative and literary fiction, and poetry. Their work explores memory, impermanence, and the quiet fractures between grief, silence, connection and change. They linger in liminal spaces and moments.
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Song in a Room Without Light. Top Story - July 2025.
I wasn’t okay, but I got good at performing the illusion, which made me an ideal freshman and unfit to survive. I escaped a small town by playing dead. I earned high grades, played a good kid, kept my voice tucked low. When I reached the university, no one looked twice. I dissolved into lecture halls and tried to stay visible enough not to vanish, quiet enough not to be pulled apart.
By Fatal Serendipity9 months ago in Writers
Breath Between Notes
The first note rises through the floorboards, and Janet pauses with her hand on the kettle, listening as the second follows, then the third, forming a phrase she knows by heart. It’s the piece she played every Sunday afternoon, the one she carried to Madeline’s bedside while the child drifted into sleep with one foot always dangling over the edge of the quilt.
By Fatal Serendipity9 months ago in Fiction
