Brynne Nelson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022

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“For Louis” by Brynne Nelson

Submitted to Contest #159

The notebook is small, the ink and cover both faded from what must have originally been a licorice color. The whole thing is speckled with dust and the spine is completely wonky, bent to a near-ninety-degree angle except where it’s belted shut with a dingy old shoelace. I shouldn’t have picked it up; there are real books in the yard sale, books that aren’t tucked, half-smashed, into a cardboard box with a mouse-chewed hole in the corner. But I’m curious. Who bothered to keep such a junky collection of scraps, and why? I throw the thing on ...

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I love to write. I love the humanity in short stories especially.