Aleta Davis

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022

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“Thaw” by Aleta Davis

Submitted to Contest #189

It was so terribly cold. Snow was falling, and it was almost dark. I lit the three candles on the mantle. Over the past two nights, they’d withered to stumps. I grabbed a flashlight and headed to the cabin’s only closet to search, in vain, for more. I found instead only cascading cobwebs and a dead mouse in a long-forgotten trap. Gingerly, I picked up a corner of the trap with two fingers, carrying it at arm’s length to the trash can outside that, supposedly, would be picked up in the morning. That felt unlikely. The snow drifts already ...

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“Taking Flight” by Aleta Davis

Submitted to Contest #143

Spring felt slow to arrive the year after Marcus left. By early April, the daffodils’ dark green leaves had only barely begun to emerge from the soil. The heavy rain was expected, but moody clouds hovered even in its absence. Impatient, Miranda rose early one Saturday morning and set out for the hardware store on Beacon Street, hoping their usual selection of house plants wasn’t fully picked over. The short drive over exposed the wreckage of the previous night’s thunderstorm. Tree branches and debris littered the sidewalks, and a downed po...

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