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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 · 28m

The house is becoming unreal.

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

The house will bestow upon the girl all that she lacks, in a manner of speaking.

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

The girl was within memory noisy, but she will become untidy.

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

In the secret space under the tiled floor, she finds a flyspecked scroll. It contains a folded will.

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

She flees, pursued by reflections.

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

The person very like herself is preternaturally beautiful. The housekeeper croons. The girl is gale-hearted.

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

The house is rumoured to be located in a gorge. It puts forth reflections. It is desired.

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

The house is haunted by starlings and putti.

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

The girl, like the neighbour, is driven beyond what she can bear.

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

She soon learns that the house teems with libraries.

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

The girl was not so long ago complete in herself, and she will become efficient.

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

The house will stand despite having its heart cut out. Its history will haunt the dreams of all who slept within its walls.

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

She arrives at the house in autumn, seeking the means to survive. She carries bitterness, and ambition.

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

There is a prophecy of a ghastly doll, who knows the manner of your death and who brushes your face with clammy fingers.

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

When she leaves the house, she will wear tears like a veil.

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

The house, like the girl, is incisive.

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

In the chapel the secretary is discovering a body. But in the cavernous bathroom the girl reaches the end of her tether and — in terror — escapes the house.

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

The house is constructed near the sea. It breaks out in bees, whose honey drips down the walls. It is flattering.

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

There is a history of a store room concealing spiderwebs.

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

The house is melodious; it rotates incrementally.

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

The butler hungers.

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

The secretary is seductive. The youngest ghost is invoked. The girl is gale-tongued.

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

There is a legend of a headless priest, who hesitates on the threshold of open doors and who trips people descending the servants' stairs.

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

The house is constructed on ancient barrows.

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

She arrives at the house at dawn, seeking vengeance. She carries a communication, and the feather.