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Halloween Season – Halloween Night

October 16, 2015 by Icy Sedgwick 5 Comments

Thank you for letting me know that you’d like to be notified about my ghost stories on BBC Radio 4 this Halloween! In the meantime, how about a spooky slice of flash fiction… “Mom, why don’t we have a pumpkin for Halloween?” Michael looked out the window at the houses across the street. Each one […]

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Halloween Season – Queens of Twilight

October 9, 2015 by Icy Sedgwick 4 Comments

Halloween Battle of the Bands

The inhabitants of Karloff Falls gathered at the single bar on Main Street for the annual Halloween Battle of the Bands contest. Some of the townsfolk wore homemade T-shirts to support their friends or neighbours. Others wore disinterested expressions, there solely due to the lack of anything else to do. MC Marie Festre adjusted her […]

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#FridayFlash – I Am

August 21, 2015 by Icy Sedgwick 12 Comments

I am the voice in the dead of night that whispers of the things you might yet achieve, if you could only relax your grip on fear and doubt. I am the voice that soothes and offers placation when the world turns away its cold face. I am the voice that calms and cajoles, that […]

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The City’s True Face: A Free Short Story

July 31, 2015 by Icy Sedgwick 15 Comments

The True Face of the City

I walk up the street and the darkness of the early hours surrounds me. Flickering street lights hum among bare tree branches. Silhouettes dance across shuttered shop fronts. A fox lurks behind a phone box and noses through discarded food wrappers. The low drone of occasional traffic ceases. For a few moments, no cars pass. […]

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The Occasional Table (short story)

June 26, 2015 by Icy Sedgwick 13 Comments

the occasional table

The Academy boasted many fine laboratories, practice suites and classrooms, but if Jyx had to choose his favourite place, then it was surely the library. For one thing, it was the only room in the entire building where he didn’t feel out of place. His shabby and mended robes matched the cracked spines and moth-eaten […]

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#FridayFlash – Spirit Photography

June 12, 2015 by Icy Sedgwick 6 Comments

Ladies, are you tired of wispy hair, or ectoplasmic break outs spoiling your best attempts at being captured on film? Do you dread the sight of a camera, and seek to hide in the shadows? There’s no need to be so bashful – our team can primp and preen even across the Veil! So if […]

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Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. She is based in the north east of England, where she was born and raised amid the folk tales and legends of Tyneside and Northumberland. Icy is fascinated by history, cinema, art, and the occult, and griffins will always be her favourite mythical beast. She also writes dark fantasy novellas, Gothic short stories and the occasional weird Western, and she holds a PhD in Film Studies!

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