Bethany Garner

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2021

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Paris Syndrome” by Bethany Garner

You have to see it to believe it.  The romantic postcards make it look larger than life, but the Eiffel Tower isn’t all that.  In fact when I saw it, I could easily believe it. It teeters off into the sky like match-stick spider-web scaffolding. It’s got fussily intricate swirls and whorls like a geometric tree that didn’t know when to stop growing.  It might have been less...

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“There she is” by Bethany Garner

There she is. I can’t believe she had the nerve to show up here after what she did to me. And what in god’s name is she wearing? Swaggering through the door in a costume that barely covers her arse—I thought we’d evolved beyond that. Is she a cat? A sexy witch? Doesn’t matter to the lads at the door. Already she’s been accosted by a gaggle of them. Oh, look, a vodka lemonade has found its ...

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“The Bonfire” by Bethany Garner

It’s ugly, the way these searing tendrils of heat claw up my arms, over my face, across the brittle surface of my hands—which are clenched into fists. I can feel it scratching my eyelids. My nostrils. My gums. Tearing through parts of my body I usually think about so little that I don’t even realise I’m not thinking about them. But this searing heat isn’t even the worst part. It’s the smoke that gets you....

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Author bio

London-based writer, who moved to the big smoke from the North of England. By day, I write about business education, by night I' trying to get into fiction.

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Contest #118
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