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Short Fiction

All Things A Blurry Dream

Oklahoma, Summer of ’73: Eve wasn’t like the other girls in her small town…

Marcello Spektor

Published in

Tantalizing Tales

8 min readMay 8, 2022

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The old Baptist church reeked of mildew and sweat, musks and perfumes. Father Emerson moralized a fallacious sermon rooted in Galatians 6:1 from the pulpit.

Marcello Spektor

Written by Marcello Spektor

Writer for

Tantalizing Tales

I want to be the Diane Arbus of writing short stories.

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