Abigail Mitchell

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2019

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Life of the Party” by Abigail Mitchell

Submitted to Contest #47

3:00 AM glows on the dashboard. Perfect. As intended, you’ve arrived fashionably late. You turn the keys in the ignition, making the air vents wheeze and silencing the rumble of your car’s engine. The anticipation feels warm and bubbly—the way a good drink makes you feel—as you push open the driver’s side door and step into the cool night, music from the estate rippling the air with its rhythmic hum.      Your heartbeat is slow and steady in your chest. You know the secret. Snug in your pocket, it tugs on the right side o...

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“The Passing of Deliah Patson” by Abigail Mitchell

Submitted to Contest #43

Outside, the rain showers from the gray, brooding sky. Droplets pelt the grass, the rotting roof. They create watery little pits in the dirt driveway. They patter against the window pane beside Deliah’s bed, the roar muting her labored breathing, censoring her daughter’s ears from the sound. As Deliah breathes, her ridged, white chest rises and falls, pulling the skin of her collarbone taut, as though the bone might burst through the flesh. And all the better. Her nightgown is stiff over her tiny frame; there is simply not enough flesh for i...

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Author bio

Some people warn that God sees all. I think we are very small. Think God swabs the earth with a q-tip and examines the residue under a great big microscope.