Anna-Marie Hayward

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2021

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“Out With The Old” by Anna-Marie Hayward

Submitted to Contest #285

17 years, 228 days, 3 hours, 11 minutes, and 52 seconds ago. That was the last time AJ held me in her hands. I’m a Game Boy Advance named Pixie. Technically, a Game Girl Advance. How can I tell time as a Game Boy Advance? I don’t. That’s what Tick, the wristwatch that AJ’s dad used to wear is for. I used to be AJ’s favorite thing. Now I sit forgotten and unused in a shabby cardboard box in the back of the garage with Tick and all the other electronic rejects, nestled between a box of old toys and a box of magazines. The toys don’t talk....

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“The Girl Who Would Be Queen” by Anna-Marie Hayward

Submitted to Contest #161

Crown Princess Irun of Edessa was embroidering tablecloths with her handmaidens when she learned that her twin brother Henfrey and king of Edessa had been blinded.It came in the form of a letter delivered by a messenger bird from Literra, the kingdom that Henfrey had recently traveled to for a state visit.Irun was laughing at a story Jevelyn was telling the group involving a cousin of hers and a hive of angry bees he accidentally stirred when the doors to the drawing room opened and one of her guards stationed outside poked his head in.“Your...

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“The Tail Of Aslaug” by Anna-Marie Hayward

Submitted to Contest #88

Once upon a time, there lived a hulder girl named Aslaug. Like all other hulders, Aslaug looked like a human from the front, but she had the tail of a cow and a large, gaping hole in her back like one would find in a hollow oak tree or a rotten log. Hulders were gifted with superhuman strength, shapeshifting abilities, and immunity to fire. They lived deep inside forests and mountains. As such, they were quite knowledgeable when it came to what grew in nature. They knew which berries were poisonous and which were safe to eat, they knew which...

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