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The Grief of Heaven Above

Into Folklore #16 — “hoax”

Jillian Spiridon
1 min readJul 24, 2023

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An angel stood in front of a grave and cried. Her tears burned like hellfire down her cheeks, but she couldn’t stop.

“It’s all right,” the other angel said, its wings shielding her from the pouring rain cascading down in fragments. “Grieving is a good thing. Let it out, just let it out.”

Sobs collected and drained out of her until, finally, the storm ebbed.

Then she looked at the other angel and smiled. “I guess tragedy is something we all have to come to terms with.”

The angel returned her smile. “What’s joy without sorrow?”

She nodded. “How true.”

Beautiful beginnings can sometimes come from the weeds. Do you appreciate Taylor Swift’s Folklore album? Then follow along for this series of microfiction; this one was based off “hoax,” track number sixteen.

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Jillian Spiridon
Jillian Spiridon

Written by Jillian Spiridon

just another writer with too many cats

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