A. L. Marchant

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2023

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“A Star in a Lifetime of Darkness” by A. L. Marchant

Submitted to Contest #232

The ageing wooden bench creaked under her weight, but it was the only place she could sit near enough the coach stop that she would be seen. It was unsheltered; the rain had not long ceased to fall from the night sky, and the moulding panels were now passing their damp to her. It travelled through the linen and lace of her petticoat to reach her skin, and further still to seize the weakened muscles beneath. The bench was in a sorry state, and barely fit to be used as firewood—yet it remained, crooked and creaking, persevering nevertheless fo...

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“Moonlit Tea by the Stove” by A. L. Marchant

Submitted to Contest #224

Slippers and a dressing-gown can only do so much to sway the bite of air that has not yet been warmed by the sun. Still she pulled them on, wrapping the fleece of her gown tightly around her body and curling her toes into the soles which never quite forgot the shape of her footprint. Dawn would not be rising for a good hour, and the moon sat comfortably among the stars that glittered over her countryside home. A little run-down—little more than a small farm house—and with no central heating to speak of, but home nonetheless. She did not liv...

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Writer of horror and pursuer of thought. Secretly a cauldron of bats in a frock coat.