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December 2025

Sale to Soul Season: A New Year Story
The phone pinged and, without thinking, she picked it up and checked the notification.
 • Alina Barbu
Things Shed
The house clearing was, in a way, as painful as their parents’ passing had been.
 • Alina Barbu
Seasonal Reading
Over the years, I have found that I do actually enjoy reading books in tune with the season happening around me.
 • Alina Barbu
The Woman Made Of Glass and Clay
There was once, somewhere close to where you live, a young woman deeply in love with a young man.
 • Alina Barbu
Low Light
The alarm rang and Frida’s arm turned it off with the speed of lighting.
 • Alina Barbu
Magical Interference
In the old times, the ones humanity barely ever thinks of now, the earth was populated not just by human beings, but also by magical beings.
 • Alina Barbu
The Way of the Tarot
I was doing a reading the other day for a friend, no really, a very good friend, and the reading was about nothing.
 • Alina Barbu
Fiction over Fact
Not all heroes wear capes, and not all monsters wear their hideousness on the outside, as Jean was to find out, the hard way.
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The Power of the Short Story
I have been writing short stories since I can remember, and always I looked down on myself for writing ‘just’ short stories.
 • Alina Barbu

November 2025

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