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Author: Ouanessa

New Short Story: “Exotic Life” 

Posted on August 15, 2025August 15, 2025 by Ouanessa

An unearthly expressive short story of expectations, longing, duress, revolting mutiny, and the struggle of choosing yourself, written with elements of dark lyrical prose reveals the unsettling ways we trap the people we love. 

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New Short Story: “The Plunge” – A Stirring Tale of Passion, Suffering, and Relinquishing Your Desires 

Posted on August 11, 2025August 11, 2025 by Ouanessa

In “The Plunge” devotion and intimacy are at a striking clash as they become the result of peril to the heart in a clutching short story about the yearning for freedom, the pain of sacrifice, and the jagged edges of heartache on the cusps of a forbidden love. 

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Strapped: A Story of Inner Turmoil, The Demons In Our Head That Cause Us Pain, and the Edge of Our Limits

Posted on August 8, 2025August 8, 2025 by Ouanessa

Sometimes when we’re in agony, it’s not easily perceptible, it slithers in between our skulls. This short story is about what it feels like when the body and mind fracture and your soul is the last thing to be cut. When your demons don’t just patronize you, they invade, curled up in the crevices of…

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New Short Story: “Copper and Gunfire” 

Posted on July 28, 2025July 28, 2025 by Ouanessa

In this original short story, a hard worker reflects the feelings they have towards their job and how it is destroying them completely. The sharp imagery and raw energy in this tale demystifies the capacity of our anxieties and how anger is tied into comparative behavior and self doubt. 

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New Short Story: “Tremors”

Posted on July 21, 2025July 21, 2025 by Ouanessa

In this original short story about emotional grief, a young teen discovers that every time she holds in her anger or fear it causes the world to crumble before her as the ground burns with fractured fissures. In an unexpected twist, she unintentionally succumbs to her emotions which creates an invisible grief in the form…

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New Short Story: “Corkscrew” 

Posted on June 23, 2025June 23, 2025 by Ouanessa

In this original short story, a young girl undergoes a crucifying medical examination that exacerbates her symptoms and is far from being a cure. Corkscrew exemplifies the intricacy of a fractured relationship in the form of a love interest whose existence both relieves her anxieties and ruins her in illusory detail, revealing that love cannot…

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Welcome Lovelies! <3

Posted on June 14, 2025June 14, 2025 by Ouanessa

Welcome to my short story blog!! In case you missed it, there are five thrilling short stories up on my page right now! If you click on the three line sidebar on your left, it will open up the menu and you can pick any one of them now if you’re in the mood for…

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Hello world!

Posted on June 3, 2025June 4, 2025 by Ouanessa

Welcome to my website, The Put Down. This has been a dream of mine for as long as I could remember! I finally took that staggering leap and decided to create a space where I can share my stories! I create original short stories that are jarring, raw, and cut to the bone as I…

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