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Amber Brownlee

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

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Dark Shadows

After years of anticipation I was finally able to buy the house of my dreams, I was surprised that it was in my price range, which set up some red flags for certain members of my family. I the other hand was elated at the fact that I could afford such a beautiful home in the country. It was a beautiful Victorian house that was over a hundred years old; four bed rooms, two bath rooms and a library that was full of books, the house was also full furnished it was as if they took what they could and left . True it needed some repairs, the paint ...

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The most unlikely Friend

Submitted to Contest #90

This world is full of beautiful animals; poaching and the destruction of their habitat has contributed to the decline of these amazing creatures. Asia, a Sumatran Tiger is one of these creatures; she came to me when she was only five months old, her mother was killed by poachers, the conservatory that housed tigers on the Island she was from could not take her because they did not have the facilities to house a cub, they put out a global 911 for any zoos or conservatoires that would be willing to take her. My boss answered that call, even th...

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Danny Ducks tall tales

Submitted to Contest #88

Danny wanted nothing more then to fit in with his peers, he would always tell tall tales of great adventures and far off lands; fighting large bears and evil witches, only a courageous duckling like himself would attempt such dangerous feats. His grandmother warned him that one day all of his white lies would catch up to him, like most children his age he never listened. In fact his lies became more and more elaborate, his best friend Terry the turtle started questioning the validity of Danny stories. “I don't care if you believe me Terry, b...

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The Golden Gift

Submitted to Contest #86

Being separated from my group was the worst thing that could ever happen to me, before we set out the very first thing that my tribal leader had said was; 'Young ones this land is very treacherous, we don't just have predators to worry about, man is the most dangerous thing out here. As wood elves we a constantly hunted for our abilities; given to us by the wood Goddess Celestine at birth, is savagely torn from our bodies from a species that is run by greed and hatred.' Now I am lost in a Timber wolf den, standing eight feet at the should...

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Willard Asylum for the mental ill

Submitted to Contest #85

October 1879My name is Katherine and I am a nurse at the Willard Asylum for the mentally ill, I transferred a year after the building had opened ; it was rumored to be more suited to the patients needs. Unlike my previous employers who believed chaining the patients to their beds or confining them to cages was the best thing for them. The tournament these people went through was to much to take, they where starved and beaten on a daily basis. Electroshock therapy was given to all patients no matter what their aliments, most of them were lob...

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Water Bear, spit of the Indian Ocean

Submitted to Contest #83

Every year on the night of the blood moon, my village and many others like it would take to the seas in hopes of seeing the Great water bear, spirt of the Indian Ocean. This year was especially momentous, for the first time I was old enough to join my brothers and father, my mother was very apprehensive about letting me go but my father wasn’t giving her much of a choice. For years I listen to the stories of the great water spirit who was said to bring good fortune to those who had the pleasure of laying eyes on her. Others, including my mot...

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Love throughout the ages

Submitted to Contest #81

My Dearest Bethany, I have loved you from the very first moment I saw you walk into the malt shop, I know we still are very young and my parents say that we should wait until we finish high school before we make any lasting commitment. The waiting is torturing me, I love you with every fibre of my being and know that I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I have a plan for us to be married before I go off to war, I know that I am too young to enlist but I have a plan for that as well, I know how you feel about me lea...

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The best intentions

Submitted to Contest #80

“This Bret miller with action 23 news, the world is in panic as the oxygen levels continue to plummet. Scientists believe that this is the cause of a unknown air born bacteria that is attacking foliage, residents are not to go out side without a back up oxygen supply. They predict with the rate the bacteria is spreading the earth will be out of breathable air in six months, stay safe and God speed.”I turned off the television and looked over at my father who was buried under a mountain of paper work. As one of the lead scientists...

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Tainted blood

Submitted to Contest #79

After years of mental abuse, I knew it was time. As I watched the blood flow down my arms, I knew that it was time, taking my anger out on myself was no longer an option. She was killing me without even physically touching me, each cut represented her vile words. After eighteen years I knew that it was time to cut all ties. She begged me to stay, promised that she would never hurt me again. She told me that she loved my and that she was truly sorry; “Look what you love did to me.” I shoved my newly badged arm in him face. “I don’t think I ca...

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My nocturnal friend

Submitted to Contest #78

I found Draco two years ago when I was in Texas doing research in one of the local bat caves, he was very young a severely injured, I knew taking in a vampire bat would be risky but I really couldn’t help myself. I bottled fed him back to health with the full intention of setting him free but every time I tried he would find his way back to me. My father built him is very own bat house that looks just like Dracula’s castle, the house is in a very large enclosure, he turns in there every morning to sleep every morning or to use the washroom. ...

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The devils cabin

Submitted to Contest #77

Chills ran down my spin as I stepped into the pitch black cabin, Becky, Mark and Billy where right behind me the dusty, creepy cabin was a much better option then sleeping in our broken down car. Becky dropped her bag by the front door and began to look for a light switch but her search was all in vain.“Megan there is no electricity in this damn place, how the hell I am I going to plug in my cell phone?” I pulled my phone out of my pocket; no service. I asked the boys if I could use their phone but they had no service as well.“It looks like ...

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Pickles the Christmas bird

Submitted to Contest #73

Out of all the things I asked for Christmas a bird was not one of them, yet here we are. All it does is stare at me with those beady little eyes of his, what kind of pet is a bird anyway, you cannot teach it tricks, well not this bird. The least my parents could do is get me a parrot or something, but no I am the proud owner of a green and yellow budgie named Pickles, that was the name it came with and I was told that I was not to change it under any circumstances because he knows his name already. Oh, yah did I mention that where not going ...

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Blood Money

Submitted to Contest #72

Every day my life was the same, get up check the mail and go to work. Day in and out was the same boring routine until one day it wasn’t. I had just finished my cup of coffee and was getting ready to check the mail when the phone rang it was my mother, she sounded different not upset more like shocked. Her bother had just passed, I didn’t know she had a brother. There was something else apparently my mother and where the only family that he had left, that being the case he left me large inheritance but left my mother nothing. I told my moth...

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Grandmas' Christmas cake

Submitted to Contest #71

For years my grandmother has made all the Christmas deserts and ever year I tried to get her recipes but she always refused even threatening to take her secrets to the grave, and I tell you what she wasn’t kidding. She had the lock box that contained her recipes buried with her. Now a week before Christmas I sat there racking my brain trying to figure out the ingredients to her most famous dessert, grandmas Christmas cake. Even my mom could not figure it out and she had eaten it every year since she was a young child. I tried to remember bac...

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wrongly convicted

Submitted to Contest #70

Getting blamed for something you didn’t do is one thing but getting a life sentence is quite another. I wasn’t even there the night my friend was murdered but according to fifteen witness they saw me stab Ruby. The only reason I received a life sentence was because I was too young to receive the death penalty, at fifteen years old I am the youngest person ever to be sent to prison, the judge decided that because of the nature of my crime I was too dangerous for juvenile hall so It was don’t pass go, go straight to a maximum security prison. ...

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