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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020
Submitted to Contest #47
3 AM. As you walk in, you are all too familiar with the crisp white walls, the smell of sterile gloves and hand sanitizer, the stillness of the room around you. Exhaustion should leave you muddled and groggy, but you have trained yourself to stay alert - after all, not doing so could cost the world a life. Your shift has begun, and you know it's time to get to work. On the small table next to the hospital bed is a few sheets of paper. You pick them up and read them through, but your mind whirls when you see what was written on them. ...
Submitted to Contest #46
A whiff of cigarette smoke swirled into the cold, February air, swirling and dissipating into the midnight fog. Soft snow crunched quietly under a pair of brown boots. The night was dead quiet, and the echoes of the hoot from a faraway owl occasionally pierced the air. The streetlights shone onto the streets and sidewalk like it did every night, little circles of dim, slightly flickering yellow light projected upon the passing man like an old spotlight. With a swift flick of a finger, the cigarette fell to the ground, its last ember dying as...
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