"Isn't it strange, Taylor?"

They watched from their tower as flames licked the walls of an orphanage downtown, the aftermath of another night of vigilante justice.

"Isn't what strange?" Taylor turned to the man he affectionately called his partner in crime. Ironically, of course.

Continued at https://writin.space/sff/status-quo/ (392 words)

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I was curious whether there were more words like "petrichor" whose meanings tend to evoke an obscure or oddly specific feeling, and the rabbit hole led me to discover https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com

It's a wonderful collection of fake definitions which are just plausible enough to pause and think about, sprinkled with cultural references. I so very much want some of them to be real - and who's to say they can't be?
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#introduction Hi folks!
I'm a #webdev who loves to read #fiction (mostly #scifi and #fantasy ) and a bit of a serial hobbiest. I dabble in #gamedev and digital #art in addition to #writing

I'm a proofer/#BetaReader on #RoyalRoad and occasionally respond to #WritingPrompts on reddit while I work my way up to writing my own longer-form fiction.

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