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Blackout - A She-Mask Story

For nearly three hours, Lucy sat on the floor of her small, dingy bathroom, naked as the day she was born. Her arms were wrapped tightly around her shins, pulling her knees into her breasts, while her feet sat flat and shivering on the cold, clammy tile. The tub’s slick fiberglass dug into her back, and behind her, a thunderous cascade of water sputtered continuously from the shower head, thickening the air with moisture. A moisture which fed the clusters of mold which had been allowed to grow unabated on the shower curtain and walls. That was fine, though. All of it was fine. In fact, she wanted it. Every morsel. Sights. Sounds. Smells. Pain. Whatever she could scrounge to distract herself from the thing on the floor across from her. She tried not to look at it. The mask hewn from polished driftwood. It took every ounce of her willpower to fix her gaze on literally anything else. A specific tile, the calcium-caked pipe under the sink. Still, the hunger always won. Her sight would drif...

Lust of the Haunted Masks

Andy pressed the side of his face against the window. The cold bit into his cheek, and he couldn’t see through the glass much thanks to the rain, but that didn’t matter. Even if he could see there wouldn’t be much there. It was 4:30, and most folks had already gone home. Rather than go home himself, Andy had spent most of the two hours since his final class lingering, either in the student lounge playing Smash Bros, or in the hallways doing laps and studying the ads on the public corkboards. Once he settled in the dining hall, he nestled himself in a booth, people watching until there were no more people to watch, and then for a little while longer. At its peak, the Eldersburg Community College dining hall was a bustling hive of student activity. Young people weaved their way between tables carrying trays of cafeteria fare to their tables, where they either met their friends or sat alone hunched over their laptops doing schoolwork. Lovers met, snuck kisses, and indulged in clumsy flirt...