Adrienne Miller

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2023

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“Know-it-all” by Adrienne Miller

Submitted to Contest #200

The streets are exploding with joy. The world’s most beautiful woman on the arm of their beautiful, if slightly disappointing, prince. Helen and Paris. They glide over Troy’s stone-hewn streets, effervescent like a picture drawn by the gods. Even Hektor smiles. Hektor, who is usually far too serious to let himself be swayed by public spectacles. Hektor, who is commonly known as the less-disappointing prince. “Look, I’m just saying –”, I start, fruitlessly. For the fifth time. “I know what you’re saying, Kassandra”, Andromache admon...

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“A Mediocre First Day in Limbo ” by Adrienne Miller

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #197

Trigger Warnings: Reference to domestic violence (not explicit), reference to eating disorder (not explicit) Ane is disappointed to open her eyes again. People who have lived a more morally righteous life are probably ecstatic to find that the promised afterlife does indeed exist. Ane, however, has spent many of her later years holding onto the hope that there might be nothing much at all after the big end and that she might be able to skip out on her share of divine judgement. That hope came in extremely handy when murdering her fir...

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Author bio

Hi there! I'm a writer and editor primarily in the genre of Dark Fantasy. My stories try to combine beautiful aesthetics with existential dread, complex romances, and found family dynamics. If you like my writing, I've published a dark fantasy mystery/romance book called The Travelling City: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BYZW93FS/ref=x_gr_bb_amazon?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_bb_amazon-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738.

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #197
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