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Rebecca Horwittt

Childhood Education Assistant in The Arboretum at Penn State, mom of 2, geologist, scientific illustrator. First pet: rooster. Favorite book: The Master and Margarita. Worst job: clerk at fancy farm market. Best job: current job. Weirdest experience: chasing a Himalayan tahr. Nearest-death experience (maybe): stepping on viper in Brazil. Thinks everyone should go to: the Appalachian Mountains.
5 min
4 votes   92 readings
 Magical Realism   Quirky

Heavenly Bodies

The astronomer stared at his computer screen, flop sweat soaking through his shirt, thinking about fate, unaware that in the empyrean realm of Mt. Olympus, the Fates were arguing.
Clotho, the [+]

Qualified
PSU Written in the Stars
5 min
1 vote   62 readings

Realpolitik and the Rabbit

The princess had lost her shoes and now every step came with a soft squelch and the unfamiliar feeling of mud welling up between her toes. She was hungry, but not hungry enough to eat one of the [+]

Qualified
PSU Through the Woods
5 min
0 vote   109 readings
 Horror

Nittany Jack

Back when the Nittany Valley was iron mines and furnaces, an old bachelor named Moses Mifflin rented half his one room cabin to one Willy Nixon, a miner recently arrived from Huntingdon County [+]

Runner up - Jury
PSU The Witching Hour

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