Straight Chatting from the Library: Kirstyn Petras

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Write down all the thoughts you had in mind today

7:30-8:30 AM - mumbled grumblings regarding street parking only to find that street cleaning was paused for Passover and I didn’t have to move the car in the first place

8:30 AM I have approximately 5,000 things to do, so I will make bread instead

Is this enough basil?

Wait I should make muffins too

Is this batter too lumpy?

I don’t like this streusel recipe, so I’ll make a different one

Mm this smells good

Now my entire apartment smells like vanilla and cinnamon and I should probably actually tackle some of the to do list

Okay, pick 5 thriller movies

Do I know 5 thriller movies?

Who would know 5 thriller movies.

Matt, what movies do I like?

Okay, two more posts to go

And the day job work

Crap

It’s so nice out

Why am I not outside

I need more tea

I need more tea

I need more tea

Competing lyrics for Way Down Hadestown, Put You Through Me, and 505

Competiting lyrics for Wait for Me, Red Eyes, and Way Less Sad

THE MUFFINS

Oh okay. It’s fine.

Sort of.

I never got that tea, did I?

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Alexander Covington is hunting a traitor: Melody Karsh, a missing girl accused of treason, a Party member who has forsaken her country. But, letters are appearing in mailboxes, being slipped beneath doors, and in the pockets of passersby. “Free Melody” is being spray painted on walls. Her image – cold, shivering, pathetic – has captured the public’s attention and sympathy.

Melody has no idea that her name is being used to start a movement, not until the executions of those demanding her freedom start airing on television.

Derek Lin would feel sympathy, if he didn’t blame Melody for the deaths of those who have disappeared without a trace, caught up in the investigation to find her.

Melody must choose to join the fight or stand aside. Derek will become a leader or break under the pressure. Alexander will decide how many bodies must fall to save his own life.

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“Why wouldn’t you be able to fight more?” Melody pressed him.

Logan shook his head; she could see it out of the corner of her eye.

“You may think Derek’s not afraid to die, but he is. I’ve known him for a long time. The guy’s scared. And you know what? I am too. You’re the one walking through this with nothing to lose anymore. The rest of us? We’re fucking terrified. I don’t want to die alone in a cramped little cell with the shit kicked out of me, so numb I can’t feel what finally kills me. I want to live, even if it means living with Covington screaming at me every day for the next 30 years. I don’t care. It’s better than the alternative.”

“So, this brings me back to my original point. Why did you leak it?”

“Why did you come back?” He challenged her. “What are you actually doing here? What are you gaining from helping in this?”

Melody looked out into the gray sky.

“Well, they feed me, don’t they?”

“If that’s all you care about, why do you even leave the house?”

“If you’re so terrified of dying, why do you?”

“For no other reason than sheer necessity.”

She had no response to this, and he stood up and left a few minutes later, leaving her alone in the freezing, sunlit afternoon.

MEET THE AUTHOR

Kirstyn Petras is a fiction writer and commodities reporter but primarily identifies as caffeine in a human suit held together by hair spray and sheer force of will. She currently resides in Texas, though claims home as a combination of New York and Edinburgh. When not writing, she trains contortion and aerial hoop. She has been published in Punk Noir, and is the co-host of Dark Waters, a literary podcast exploring all that is dark, ready, and wonderfully twisted.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kirstyn_Petras
Author Page: https://cinnabarmoth.com/kirstyn-petras/

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