Stories tagged superstition

The Scarab

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He thought the scarab was bad luck. I knew too little about omens to argue.

BLUE

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A subway train rumbled through the underground and she actually felt it slither under her feet. Her gaze lingered for a moment on the desiccated leaves and the small rectangle of blue cardboard the blustery wind had wedged between the gargoyle's talons.

The Wind Was Caused By Their Leaving

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The thatched roof flew off the stone walls of the house like a hat blowing off. That's when it started blowing. It was the Night of the Big Wind. We were at the wake of John Gribbin when the storm rose up loud as rolling thunder. The wind took poor John right off the ice…

The Stuff of Superstition

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When the first newborn went missing from the Hill County Hospital, many thought that an estranged father had run away with it across state lines, but when the second newborn went missing from the same hospital, the deputy sheriff called an emergency press