Anna Smith

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2020

Stories (6)

6 Stories

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“The Thing” by Anna Smith

Submitted to Contest #154

The tenth and final time somebody found the object, it was 1987. Laura found it on the side of the road, and picked it up. She was an artist and finding and using detritus she had found was something that she often did. She couldn't even figure out what it was until she saw the glass eyes, and the feeling of fur between her fingers made sense. It was a teddy bear, the fur the only thing left of the child's toy. "Hey," she said, softly, running her fingers over what was left of it, covered in dirt and leaves as it was. The stuffing had comple...

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“History” by Anna Smith

Submitted to Contest #78

When most people saw Arianna's room, they declared her a hoarder, though it was never out loud, always kept in their thoughts as was polite to do.But, looking about the room, it was undeniable.It started with the cello in the corner, which was always the first thing that people saw when they walked into her room. The wood gleamed in the light of her overhead fan's lamp, and the automatic assumption was that she was a musician.That assumption quickly dissipated when their eyes swept over the rest of her room.There was a bracelet making statio...

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“Chapter One” by Anna Smith

Submitted to Contest #77

She stared out at the snow gently falling and thought about how movies could never quite capture the feeling of snow. In movies, there were only two feelings that were associated with snow. The first was that of happiness; it was snowing at the end of a Christmas movie, and the characters were triumphant and now living their happily ever afters. The second was dread; danger was afoot, and the snow foreshadowed someone's death. Movie's never managed to get the feeling in the middle. She wasn't sure how they would. There was no way to describe...

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“Someday” by Anna Smith

Submitted to Contest #76

There is a girl who lives in two worlds. The first is the real world. Half of her lives there. In this world, she is known as the woman who hardly says anything at all. That’s a lie. She is not known in this world at all. Instead, she is a woman who apologizes to people who bump into her. She is a woman who takes the coffee orders and accepts that her name is not Jessica, but Jennifer to most people. She is a woman who goes home at night alone, knowing that she hasn’t said anything important in over six months. But the other half of her? The...

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“Now” by Anna Smith

Submitted to Contest #75

Adeara and Hawthorne were well-known for the fact that they did not make changes. Everything in their lives had been the same for the past ten years; even down to the furniture that they'd bought in college and hadn't been able to give up, no matter how ratty the couch/nightstand looked. But, 2020 had taught them both a valuable lesson. "My life needs to change." Neither of them knew that they both were in the same bar, having the same conversation with their respective best friends, Sadie and Perkins. Sadie had only been friends with Adeara...

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“Day One” by Anna Smith

Submitted to Contest #74

Day Ten The cake was the focal point of the kitchen. It had popped up from one of Margaret's relatives, though Lennox hadn't seen it happen. She'd be happy about the cake, as it was a beautiful masterpiece. Three layered and decorated to perfection with little ribbons and Merry Christmas written in beautiful script, it was probably the most beautiful cake she'd ever seen. She had a sneaking suspicion, however, that it had come from Margaret's aunt, Robina, and as such, she had no plans of touching it anytime soon. "Oh, babe! I see you've fou...

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Author bio

Put a pen and paper in front of me and I can be entertained for a lifetime.