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#FridayFlash – The House That Could

September 19, 2014 by Icy Sedgwick 8 Comments

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Filed Under: Flash Fiction Tagged With: abandoned space, flash fiction, friday flash, haunted house, short story

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  1. Marc Nash says

    September 19, 2014 at 8:01 am

    the house as group therapist, nice! I’ve written a couple of stories about how human life imprints of the architecture & fabric of a house. You’ve gone the other way and made it a 2-way street, each imprints on the other

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  2. Helen A. Howell says

    September 19, 2014 at 8:44 am

    It seems like a very sensible house to me! I’m glad it’s not empty any more.

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  3. Nadine My-Addiction says

    September 19, 2014 at 8:45 am

    I loved this. Great story.

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  4. Carrie Clevenger says

    September 19, 2014 at 9:53 am

    Houses have feelings too. Glad it all worked out.

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  5. Larry Kollar says

    September 19, 2014 at 11:00 am

    It seems to have acquired some wisdom in its long years of emptiness. And I wonder how the boy figured it out. Fun little read, start to finish.

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  6. Steve Green says

    September 19, 2014 at 10:20 pm

    An unusual and enjoyable tale, I couldn’t help but feel a little sorry for the surveyor fellow though.

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  7. Katherine Hajer says

    September 21, 2014 at 12:42 pm

    I hope the real estate agent mentioned how much character the place has!

    Lovely.

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  8. Jon Jefferson says

    September 26, 2014 at 4:16 pm

    What do you do when your calling is the care and feeding of others but well, you hate others? Tough business for the house but at least it found a happy medium and someone who appreciated its efforts.

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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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