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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021
Submitted to Contest #99
Soft, swishing beads filled the world like a giant bathtub, silently drowning hopes, thoughts, and lives. Buildings swayed gently yet roughly, and Abigail was there when the screams fell into silence. The tapping turned to slamming turned to wrecking, and no one knew who was next. It didn't help that Abigail was drowned in the horrors of absolute darkness, the power having been disrupted when the storm started. She trembled on the cold, shaky floor of her room, grabbing onto some unknown piece of furniture, waiting. All she could do was wa...
Submitted to Contest #97
The night was filled with silence - echoing, screaming silence. The kind of silence where you can just know something bad is about to happen. No one needs to tell you anything, and already you can feel yourself on edge, waiting for some sort of tragedy to strike you down. It was the kind of silence Rebecca spent her life plotting to avoid, and yet it was the kind of silence she was now confronted with. A sharp knock on the window was what startled her. It was urgent and loud, piercing through the eerie silence, and as s...
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