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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2023
 My mind is a forest, and I am alone. I will guard its twisting, endless darkness, waiting with anticipation and dread for the arrival. Of what? I do not know. Why I attempt to defy the inevitable, I also do not know.  Will it come as a beast? Snarling, emerging from the trees, jaws snapping, circling me. Drooling saliva at the prospect of consuming what happiness remains inside of me. Teeth so sharp and a cold look so vicious and torn with hatred I dare not to keep its gaze. But in truth is it the gaze and teeth that tru...
Submitted to Contest #204
(contains mentions of suicide and murder) My day started out normal enough. My town is small, boring, and lacking in entertainment. Most of its inhabitants even more so, but it was a fair way to live life. No one starved and we survived, and in some towns you couldn’t even have that. But then one day, I saw a new house among the few we had. It was tall and the wood was black, looking almost rotten. The grass was withered and no flowers grew on the lawn. You could hear the house creak and groan as if it were about to collapse, and take o...
Submitted to Contest #201
 My name is Lucy. A boring name. An unnoticeable name. I’m quiet, I’m shy, I’m forgotten by most who meet me. I have no friends, and my sister’s hardly company as she leaves to go smoke with her friends in the alley nearby nearly every night. Truthfully, the only thing you’ll ever need to know about me is that I am Alina’s #1 fan. You know who I’m talking about. The one, the only, Alina Orisir. Even if you don’t recognize the name, you have heard her songs. Her music, ever sweet, finds its way to you one way another and captures your he...
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