Calliope Lawson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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“Say it Twice” by Calliope Lawson

Submitted to Contest #101

Growing up the doctors often described it as being a short-circuit, as if Greggory Willen's brain was more similar to a malfunctioning computer than a complex organ. Sometimes he was able to keep it inside, stifle the words that threatened to flow out like a breaking dam, but most of the time they spilled out despite his best efforts. It was a repetition, one sentence followed by an identical one, almost as if his brain didn't register him saying it the first time. Mr. and Mrs. Willen first noticed the speech anomaly when Greggory was six y...

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“Only a Spark” by Calliope Lawson

Submitted to Contest #64

Everett Watts and Lucille Hallwin’s relationship was notorious in the small southern town of Armaxin, Louisiana. A common topic of conversation at PTA meetings and church potlucks, the Watts/Hallwin family feud was a favored subject among the local gossips. The Hallwins were a well-known part of Armaxin, with their not so subtle influence extending to nearly every crevice and shadow of the small town. They were old money, their wealth kickstarted by Mrs. Hallwin’s great-grandfather and his invention of some new type of glass window. The Watt...

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“I Would Tell You That I Love You” by Calliope Lawson

Submitted to Contest #58

I could hear his ragged breathing, and the scratch of his fingernails on the hardwood floors. Watching the blood that spread beneath him grow with each wheezing breath. Out of the corner of my eye I watched the shadows lengthen in the corners of the room as the sun began to set, casting somber monsters and men on my pale blue walls. They each seemed to stare at me with dark and empty eyes, emptiness that was mirrored in my own. On other nights I would have turned away from them, feeling a chill down my spine and a pit gape in the bottom of m...

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