Alexis Pfauser

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2023

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“The Tenth Victim ” by Alexis Pfauser

Kodi climbed the rickety ladder. It shuddered under her weight in a way it didn’t used to. Her mother had warned her about the freshman fifteen, but she hadn’t listened. Perfect, she thought. I’m going to fall to my death because I’m the girl that got fat at college. But luckily, the ladder didn’t give out and she was able to pull herself up onto the metal platform. The old guardhouse was just as she remembered it. There weren’t even any new spray paint additions. No one in town knew what the guardhouse had originally been built...

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“Song of the Swamp” by Alexis Pfauser

When I was three days old my momma tried to kill me. Mimi was gutting fish in the kitchen when she heard the splash. She said momma was at the edge of the small dock watching as I sank into the muddy water. When she realized what was happening, she came running. Momma fought and screamed. Mimi ended up with a scar on her left hand from where momma bit her. Paw heard the commotion and tackled Momma to the ground. Momma ended up being put in one of those head hospitals, and I grew up in the house where I almost died. On the nights when ...

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“Ghosts of What If?” by Alexis Pfauser

Submitted to Contest #196

A midwest summer storm battered the small ranch house. Inside a mother held her daughter, the room barely illuminated by their small array of candles. When the lights went out the mother had stumbled through the darkness cursing herself for not replacing batteries in their emergency lighting. Her father had only reminded her several hundred times. The wind howled, shaking the walls of the house. It was an old house that settled often, and at the most inconvenient of times. Thunder struck and jolted the door from where the latch just bar...

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