Cally Howell

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

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“If The Fire Went Out” by Cally Howell

Submitted to Contest #77

I looked timidly out at the snow. It was a pure, startling whiteness, covering every tree branch and blade of grass, plenty of feet deep.  The trip wasn’t supposed to go this way. It was supposed to be fifty degrees and sunny the entire time. No one who came to camp had any snow appropriate gear; we had packed sweaters, long-sleeved hiking shirts, cargo pants. Everything you’d expect to need on a late winter camping trip in North Carolina. When the temperatures first started to drop, Kate told us to double layer. That was fine for...

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“Earth-1” by Cally Howell

Submitted to Contest #76

“Samantha Rodney Packs.” “I dunno. Sometime in 5584, I think. The clinician said I was seventeen, last time I went. That wasn’t too long ago.” “Earliest place I remember was Earth-234. After mum left, we went to Earth-98, then I can’t remember the next one. Then Dad died and I just sorta drifted.” “She was - or is, I dunno - an astrological something. Spent a lot of time looking at pictures of the sky.” “He didn’t have a job, ’til we left 234. Then he did odd jobs, whatever the Network needed.” “Oxygen deprivation. He forgot his mask one tim...

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