Abby Jaquint

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019

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“Standstill” by Abby Jaquint

Submitted to Contest #22

It was cold. Well, I was cold. They try to make it seem like you can wear your best party dress, you know, the one that makes you look like a H&M model, and not be cold. Now, here I am, standing outside a club—the one next to the one that burnt down last year—freezing my ass off and wishing I’d at least worn thigh-high boots so that my calves wouldn’t be right on the brink of freezing completely, cracking and breaking off into a thousand tiny shards of ice, leaving me to fall over and die here on New Year’s Eve.  I didn’t want to co...

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“Wish and Wish and Wish” by Abby Jaquint

Submitted to Contest #9

I wished. I wished on stars. Dandelions. 11:11. Eyelashes when they would fall off and land gently on my cheek. Day after day, wish after wish, asking for things to just get better, as if some cosmic entity would hear my pleas and decide that I was the one poor soul in this world that they wanted to help.  It isn’t any different today. My legs swing back and forth on the end of Aiden’s pickup truck, the tall grass beneath us tickling my calves. Aiden lazily holds a dandelion in front of me. “You’re taking a long time,” he says.  I ...

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