HeyJaredunspooling
I write fiction and the occasional essay reflecting on the craft. unspooling is my playground, the place I come to to practice the craft I've loved since childhood, as well as share the fruits of that practice. Enjoy!
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perversion (opens the original)
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Aleesha has no idea she is biting her lip until something warm drops onto the back of her hand and she realizes, with delayed bafflement, that it’s a spot of blood. It’s the plumper, she realizes—she can’t feel how hard she’s been biting because of its key ingredient: cayenne pepper extract. Subject to a buzzing hyperthermia, the lower half of her face is little more than a vague, glowy numbness, with all of the sensitivity of the thoroughly anaesthetised.She cranes forward until her eyelashes c
Such Things We Do By the Light of the Moon (opens the original)
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