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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020
Submitted to Contest #39
Lana takes a deep breath and really tastes the air. She lets it wash her through, touch every cell in her lungs, holds it there, three… four… and then exhales, expelling all the carbon dioxide from her bloodstream back out into the atmosphere, three… four… She spins in place, eyes closed at first — savouring the feeling of terra firma beneath her feet, the reliable pull of gravity keeping her from drifting away into the great nothingness — and then eyes open, taking in the stars, the constellations as they are from this planet at t...
⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #35
I wake up to the grating buzz of Craig’s alarm. He rolls over and silences it with a heavy hand before letting sleep reclaim him. Any other morning I would have rolled back over with him and tried to steal an extra ten minutes of shut-eye before the alarm pierced the quiet again, but today I am wide awake. It’s the first day of spring. I marked the date in my calendar with shaking hands during the dead grey of November, when the crisp chill of fall had passed through and robbed the world of colour before fading into the dreary...
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