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Bree Gambini

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2024

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Bree Gambini

Submitted to Contest #316

“Can you keep a secret?”I looked up from my plastic tray, which was slightly gouged in the middle from all the scraping of previous spoons, and locked eyes with my new celly. She had only been in for a few days and all I’d seen from her was shifty energy. I was too tired for shifty. “I’m not interested. I don't do the hard stuff.”Most of the time newbies thought they could get the big drug, Honey, in but they’d find out who ran the place around here pretty quick and would decide better of it. Wasn’t worth it getting on Kane’s bad side. “Not ...

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Do Not Read

Bree Gambini

I love being alone. It was often hard for me to picture a future with a husband, or with kids I pushed out of my body. The concept of no longer being my own or having the freedom of no commitments was a terrifying one. As I rush through my twenties, I wonder if I’m even meant to have a future. I just don’t interact with many people so desperate for isolation like I am, and I wonder if others aren’t interested in their future like I am not interested in my own. I contemplate the meaning of my life and my place in this...

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Never Forgotten

Bree Gambini

Submitted to Contest #271

I stared at the smoke curling around the lights that lined the ceiling. The familiar smell of cigars comforting the ache in my chest. I turn on the leaning barstool, glancing over the people that fill the old bars room. I often come to the dirty spot that sits beside the towns burger and fry walk up. The owner didn’t care if you dropped grease, ash, or blood on the bar top. He kept it rough and straight forward, just like his father did. It was a family only operation. The bar offered a prime spot to overhear the local gossip and w...

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