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Girls Running From Houses

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · Nov 24

The grammar’s questionable in the reposted phrase but I haven’t changed it because this is the very first sentence structure in @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social — from the little Advice for the Fleeing Girl zine I did for some patrons

Grid of words I can’t lay out properly here:
Directions for Fleeing
(choose one from each column, or add your own)
FLEE IN / AMIDST
DIRECTION
AND WITH ONLY
haste
to
greater danger
a candelabra
disorder
into
much the same
a lantern
terror
towards
joy
a knife
wisdom
under
a lonely death
a scream
determination
through
moors
wild laughter
exasperation
via
a chance
the children
a frantic state
around
a door
your beloved
doubt
against
water
a ghost
chaos
over
caverns
ghosts
tears
alongside
waking
a map
peals of laughter
away from
the known
(your?) memories
decay
near
eternity
the money
high dudgeon
deeper into
the unknown
the inheritance
misery
above
truth
what you first brought
confusion
oblique to
deceit
the clothes on your back
certainty
amongst
fire
all that you learned
rags
parallel with
regret
all that you gave
glory
down
home
a wound
destruction
up
the beginning
a curse
exhaustion
within
the end
a blessing
flame
out of
time
a pursuer
triumph
together with the ice

your prey ahead of you

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 25m

Restlessness.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 57m

She soon learns that the house has been afflicted with history.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 1h

She arrives at the house at midwinter, seeking a book. She is owl-blooded.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 2h

The house (from which music emanates) is built over a lost forest.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 2h

The house, like the girl, is unsettlingly lovely.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 3h

The doors are painted with flickering stars, and a moon that alters when someone shifts the candle behind it, and occasionally when they do not, but nobody seems to mind, and when she points it out, they merely laugh and change the subject.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 3h

Unfortunately, she is leopard-swift.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 4h

The first mistake the girl made was not to speak to the gaunt librarian — but could you, reader, have played otherwise, with the cards thus dealt?

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 4h

In the atrium, there is a keen perfume of medicine.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 5h

A massive chapbook. An odd pamphlet. Soot.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 5h

The house dances slowly, in the manner of architecture. The sunroom hides its face from the sun. In the airing room, the Countess makes a fatal error.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 6h

She is hungry.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 6h

Under the carpeting, she finds portraits rendered dim and obscure by time.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 7h

Horror.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 7h

The house is infested by contagions and mannequins.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 8h

If they could make a girl out of red brick, she would be faithful.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 9h

The footman slithers.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 9h

The lady of the manor is her only friend, but the traveller is her secret supporter.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 10h

She is patient as a beetle; she is a worm among doves.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 10h

The house, like the girl, is cruel.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 11h

At sundown, she sees ink stains.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 11h

The girl, like the housekeeper, is being mistaken for another.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 12h

The fate of the girl turns on the enmity between the investigator and the governess.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 12h

Faithful reader, the girl did escape.

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 13h

She arrives at the house tracing the governess, who ruined her great-aunt, but who might be the girl's long-lost relative.