Alex Roller

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2024

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“Two Turns” by Alex Roller

Submitted to Contest #241

The small, pebble-lined street opens up before me. It forks, there, not too far ahead. The left patters out to foot-stamped dirt and neglected grass while the right winds through a row of tidy cottages. The nearest door is propped open and the smell of baking bread that drifts out is warm and inviting.It’s too obvious, one or the other. Not today.I turn around.The wide, mud-brick road opens up before me. One path sprawls down to a dock bustling with workers and cargo. The other cuts a staircase into the side of a ragged mountain. It climbs t...

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“Fit the Mold” by Alex Roller

Submitted to Contest #239

Renee was fine with most of it. The app that tracked her period and shaded the days she might get pregnant in yellow. The texts to her husband, reminding him to be ready after work. The negative tests, even when they came month after month after month. What she couldn’t stand, where she’d made an unbearable error, was the nursery.When they first decided to try for a baby, in her premature enthusiasm she’d staplegunned board-and-batten to the walls, then pasted neutral wallpaper above the straight wooden lines. She’d scoured upscale bout...

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