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Angel Ball

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2024

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The Burden Of The Plant People

Angel Ball

Most children awake into the world to the sound of a heart monitor and a cooing mother. They feel her close to their frail body as the rope connecting them is severed like thread. Sometimes, they may even be held by a father, rough calloused hands tracing the outline of their wrinkled forehead as their eyes adjust to the fluorescent hospital lights. I am not most children. I was told I was born in a garden, like all the others since The Harvest. I was told I was the perfect Little Apple, and one day, I may even challenge one of T...

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It Is Not Leaves

Angel Ball

The fall leaves cascaded down the cracked sidewalk in multicolored carpets of honeysuckle red and yellow ochre. The London streets were suffocated by the dark smog produced by many of the thriving businesses. A lesson to learn when you work for one of London's many textile corporations is that the free housing they supply is often taken for granted until they nail a series of heartless eviction notices to your front door, and you realize that all the things you found so incredibly comforting, can be ripped away faster than anybody would ever...

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Why Did You Stop

Angel Ball

Submitted to Contest #286

There was no obituary in the newspaper from my neighborhood, there was no black clad statues to attend the funeral of the boy, wait no, of the girl who was unjustly killed simply for being herself. Its hard to drift smoothly into death when your life is so violently snatched from you. I would know, because I am that girl.The middle of winter is a time as good as any to commit a murder, the snow fuses with the scarlet blood and melts into the ground, leaving not a trace of the body to be found. I was walking down the path I am walking now, a ...

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The Line is Dead

Angel Ball

Submitted to Contest #285

Foreword: please be aware this story contains body horror and minor elements of suicide to further the plot, if you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide please call 911 or alert a trusted health professional.12:24 AM “Hello, this is Charlottesville Noble Cross Church speaking how can I help you?” “Good evening, I am interested in finding [Redacted], could you possibly assist me in retrieving it?” “Well miss, you can always contact our lost and found department. If you would like to ...

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