Author

Maraschino House

Literary intimacyAtmospheric, precise, and restrained, with tension carried through detail.

Polished short fiction for late-night reading.

Stories

By Maraschino House

Downloaded her grief. Kept the daughter.

Uploaded her laugh. Forgot the reason.

Hand Me the Clamp

by Maraschino House

**Carlos — Square and True** I didn't understand then that a coffin is the only…

Two estranged siblings build their mother's coffin. The shop AI has been keeping something for two years — something it didn't know how to give back.

Novella

Low Retention

by Maraschino House

I did not schedule this, and that is how I know it happened. At 6:47 on a Tuesd…

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Recalculating

by Maraschino House

The First Recount (Sarah) The algorithm gave us seventy-one percent, and Marcus…

Pour

Seven Points

by Maraschino House

I need to tell you what I did in the disabled bathroom of the downtown transit S…

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The Kindness You Didn't Ask For

by Maraschino House

**Sophie — Last Call, More or Less** By the time he kissed me, Marcus already k…

A footage editor and a bartender meet the night his worst confession goes viral — and she's the one who shaped it.

Novella

What I Came Back For

by Maraschino House

Seven years I told myself I was done watching this man's hands. Liar. Forty bod…

Cherry

The Dip

by Maraschino House

*Before* I want you to know I was dragged here. I want that on the record, nota…

Pour

The Prepared Remarks

by Maraschino House

*The Morning Of* The lectern was made of recycled hull composite, and Karen not…

Pour

All the Frequencies of Wanting

by Maraschino House

*I. Pings* I was not built to watch them love each other. I was built to detect…

Pour

The Word She Kept

by Maraschino House

Afterward, in the room where the ceasefire had not quite died, Sarah noticed he…

Cherry

The Dead Zone

by Maraschino House

I didn't understand, then, why she kept her eyes shut when she described the man…

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What She Could Not Keep

by Maraschino House

I didn't understand then that Suki had chosen the room because its sky was alrea…

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At the Original Resolution

by Maraschino House

Vesna told me this years later, and she got the cold part right but I think she…

Cherry

The Last Analog Lungs

by Maraschino House

My sister brought me coffee in a building that would not exist on Thursday, whic…

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Rotation Protocol

by Maraschino House

The protocol exists because of what happened on Enceladus. Four years before I…

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What the Machine Kept

by Maraschino House

She had told him the port was dead, and he had believed her the way people belie…

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What Was Planted in It

by Maraschino House

She had touched the book before he offered it — a half-second of presumption she…

Cherry

The Exact Latency

by Maraschino House

The kiss was already a memory by the time she reached the kitchen, which is how…

Cherry

What the Rig Kept

by Maraschino House

The rig was still running — she heard it before she saw the small amber pulse of…

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The Price of an Honest Hour

by Maraschino House

She had spent the morning arranging a dead woman's memories into something her c…

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Still Not to Open

by Maraschino House

She kept returning to locker 114 the way you return to a bruise — not to heal it…

Cherry

What the Plaster Kept

by Maraschino House

The hall had been holding its breath for six months, and Solis had learned, with…

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What the Room Kept

by Maraschino House

The room remembered her before he did. Solis felt it the way he always felt the…

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Last Call at the Coronado

by Maraschino House

The rain had opinions about tonight. It came down sideways, personal, like it ha…

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Again, and Again, and

by Maraschino House

The first time, she does not know it is a loop. The hotel room is unremarkable,…

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The Unwritten Collection

by Maraschino House

The library existed in the space between sleeping and waking, which is to say it…

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Sicilian Defense

by Maraschino House

The chess clock was analog, the old kind with brass buttons on top, and every pr…

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