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Addie Cox

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2023

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A Witch's Guide to Necromancy

Addie Cox

Submitted to Contest #312

Most people in town wouldn’t go near Imelda Gray with a ten-foot pole–or more accurately, stake. Her tangled crow’s nest of hair, milky eyes, and persistent scent of decay didn’t help. And most importantly: She was a witch. While people in those modern, new-fangled, open-minded cities were starting to accept witches ever since burning them at the stake had been outlawed forty years ago, the citizens of Amberwood were stubbornly set in their witch-hating ways. It didn’t help that Imelda, at the young age of 17, specialized in raising the dead...

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Deja Vu

Addie Cox

Sometimes I think that the whole thing could have been avoided if I didn’t have the almost supernatural gift to remember when I had left something behind. My Nana (who had been unpleasant in her life) had always said it was my useless 6th sense and I had always thought I was just lucky. There are a lot of things like that in my little town. Like mothers who lift cars off their babies (though some people just called that “adrenaline”) and old ladies who can tell what the weather will be tomorrow without ever looking at the weather app, like N...

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So, You're Being Haunted!

Addie Cox

So, You’re Being Haunted!  Don’t worry, this isn’t the end of the rope for you! Millions upon millions of others have been affected by this. Some even say it's “World War III” or “Covid 19 Round Two” or mostly “H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks” which is possibly the most accurate.  Now before you start hyperventilating or freaking out, take a few deep breaths. Chances are you’ve met someone who was being haunted by a ghost (or as the Government calls it “a Spectral visitor with negative intentions”). But it's a lot different when it's you ...

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The New Neighbors

Addie Cox

In a small town in Montana the residents of Maple Lane received a letter in their mailboxes. Every last one of them down to the crabby old man on one end (whom it was social suicide to talk to) and to Mrs. Jackson (who made the rules on what was acceptable and not acceptable in Maple Lane) on the other. Each letter was written in the same neat cursive and in the same envelope. Each letter read the same thing: Dear Neighbors, I would like to start this letter by apologizing for any broken porch lights and/or windows. Any rude or antisocial be...

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You Know the Real Story

Addie Cox

Submitted to Contest #280

“H-hello everyone. My name is Liz Landers. And goodness, there sure are a lot of you. I’ll try to make this quick but as my mama always says when I get started nothing can shut me up again.Like one time at my Granny’s I– “Okay, I see that look you're giving me ma’am. I’ll stay on track. So about five months ago I came home from my first year of college and I was broke poor. My parents said they were gonna kick me out if I didn’t start making some money and the streets didn’t sound too comfy so I went around town looking for work. “It took a ...

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Where the Dead Things Go

Addie Cox

  My name is Alisha Turner and I woke up in a good mood on a sunny morning. I pulled apart the blinds to see my weird neighbor Karson dragging my dead dog Bernie across his backyard. Unfortunately, this is not the first dead animal I've seen Karson handle. When we were ten our neighborhood had a problem with rats which mysteriously started clearing up on its own. One night I was putting some food out for Bernie when I saw Karson taking bags of deceased rats and dragging them to the shed. I guess I thought maybe it was some sor...

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284 Days Ago

Addie Cox

The bus driver was nervous. Bernice could tell because he was speeding more than usual and he had a thin sheen of sweat on his forehead. He had the news station on his radio and he seemed to be barely paying attention to the road. He kept looking at the sky like he thought it was about to fall. It almost made Bernice laugh. He’d been that way for 67 days. Why was he still so scared? They reached the middle school where Bernice and her fellow 8th graders got off. The bus driver gave them a distracted: “Do good in school.” Before he drove off ...

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A Dash of Disaster

Addie Cox

Recipe For Disaster  Ingredients-1 Middle School (perhaps it could be called LittleBrooke Middle)-1 New Kid (who could be called Micheal)-1 Bully (possibly a kid in your class named Kaden Price who has spent the better part of 3 years trying to make your life a living nightmare)-300 Afternoons spent in a locker-3 Years-1 Negligent teacher (Mrs. Price)-1 Unhelpful Principle (Mr. Principal)-2 Best Friends-1 Dangerous Idea-1 16 oz Soda-3 Fireworks-1 Celebratory PicnicInstructions:Take the bully (Kaden) and the teacher (Mrs. Price), and mix...

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Trespasser

Addie Cox

The grim reaper is still following me.  I look behind me to check again. The Reaper is about 20 feet away and gaining. As I speed up I pass a zombie, a wizard, a ninja turtle, a ballerina, 7 witches, a knight in ‘shining’ armor, and a middle-aged man with the words “I’m a muggle” on his shirt. I try to wipe off the sticky mud on my shirt. Each costumed child (and middle aged muggle) holding a pillowcase bursting with candy. In my neighborhood we take Halloween seriously. There are full on fistfights–and sword fights, depending on the co...

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Not So Bad In Idaho Falls

Addie Cox

“109 Ways to Suddenly and Violently Die In Idaho Falls.” I glanced up at Linh with a “what is this” look in my eye. Linh nodded eagerly. “Yes! See! See!” “Um, no,” I answered. The thin paperback book in Linh’s hand titled 109 Ways to Suddenly and Violently Die In Idaho Falls held exactly no answers for me, and I told Linh so with a look. In my mind the look said: “I know what you’re doing and would you please, please stop already.” But it may have just been a confused look since Linh took the chance to immediately start talking. “Sudden and ...

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The Hacker, Pixel, and Glitch

Addie Cox

Submitted to Contest #241

Niko woke up to the sound of a gunshot. Luckily for Niko his life did not end with that sound, as would be expected. “Sugar snaps!” That was another thing you would probably need to know about Niko (the first being he was not already dead), he had an obsession with food that blended into his language, that and he was, to put it plainly, pretty weird.Niko tore through his living room where he had fallen asleep doing history homework, his books and papers flying everywhere, and raced to his bedroom. The gunshot sound had been loud (as gun...

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The Words On The Wall

Addie Cox

Of course, it started innocently enough. Most incidents do. At first no one was particularly worried. They’d done enough worrying. It was “time to heal” as the principal said. Anyway, things go missing all the time. Especially at schools. And especially-especially at middle schools. No one even noticed until a Monday in february.That day the students, all twenty-two of them, filed into class. Talking loudly, chattering. Earbuds in, music playing. It wasn’t until the eighth graders were seated that they realized something was amiss. One ...

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What's One More Heartbreak?

Addie Cox

The little bakery was bustling on a chilly Friday afternoon. The decorations of red and white hearts were littered across the counter and walls. Advertising a Buy-One-Get-One-Free cake sale in honor of Valentine's day. The mood overall was joyful. There were, however, few exceptions.  The first being the couple in the five seat booth. They had gone from yelling, to crying, to pleading in the last twenty minutes and the owner was considering booting them. But there was no need. The girl ran from the cafe screaming that he was “ruining he...

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Cut Short

Addie Cox

“We have all the time in the world,” Cayenne says, nonchalantly leaning against a shelf of macaroni and cheese. It's basically her catchphrase. She says it all the time. You swallow nervously. You’ve never been able to say no to Cayenne before and you can’t now. She’s a good friend and all but that's not what makes it so hard to say no. There’s something magnetic about her. Nobody can say no.  At first you were surprised when she began to talk to you. You were sure she was speaking to the non-existent person behind you or perhaps the i...

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Written In The Stars

Addie Cox

The young girl only awoke because her head had slipped from its precarious perch on the window glass and bonked her in the arm. But now that she was awake she felt a sense of anxiety. Like a thousand butterflies swirling in her insides. What if she missed it again?Her cheek was sticky from being smashed onto the glass and her arms were asleep. She knew she shouldn’t fall asleep again but she was oh-so-sleepy. “Little girls shouldn't be up this late.” That was what Daddy would say. But Daddy wasn’t here right now.The little girl hummed a...

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