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Carolyn Bayne

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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Jack Turner – The lawyer – a loner, but always willing to help others just received a call to collect an item, but the item does not say whether it is animal, vegetable or mineral so he has no idea how large or fragile this item is. Sarah Brindleburg – A landscape Architect a single woman in her late twenties, received a text on her phone to check out the area for the plans, but the plans do not really detect a specific area.The taxi driver and the hit man must do his final job before he is free to rekindle his life, with his daughter, he ha...

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Thd Strangest Experience

I was walking up the road when I saw something peeping from behind the stoned wall, it wasn’t a person or an animal, as I got closer the object peered out and disappeared. A bus appeared and nearly ran me down; I darted out of the way and found my self in a field of poppies. All alone with just the elements and the air, I ran through the poppies knocking every blossom. I came to the end of the lane and could not decide which route to take, there were two roads in front of me. I was in an uncontrollable spin, twirling round and round and fl...

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Light Years Ahead

Submitted to Contest #103

He had lived among us for decades, he kept on hinting but they would not listen. They even tried to section him, but it didn't work, until finally, things changed when he graduated with Hons at Brentrose University in Science and Medicine. There were two more in his family, a brother and sister, with his mother and father, she always knew he was different and he was different, because when he was born, there was a very violent storm which lasted from the time he came down from the alimentary canal to when the nurse held him an...

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The Last Journey

Submitted to Contest #102

It was all in a days work as John approached his vehicle for the first time in a year, he gave it the full circle before attempting to go in. With time on his hands, the children were still in bed, wife Rosie was in the shower, John took the valued opportunity, to sit alone in his car with not a care in the world. Sitting comfortably, and carressing the interior leather seats with his hands, looking in the rear view mirror, the car still parked in the drive, both hands on the steering wheel, and using the motion of moving his hands up and do...

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A New Beginning

Submitted to Contest #96

The driver drove carefully through the country lane, single-laned roads all the way, and a very scenic view on both sides of the road, clumps of trees change to fields of green, not alot of traffic for that part of the morning, eventhough Don the local taxi, kept on trying to engage in conversation, but received no response from the stranger, so instead, Don just kept on driving and every now and then he would give his usual report of the area, Don did try to questioned the stranger on many more occaisions, but with no response. It was a lon...

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The Student

Submitted to Contest #91

It was May 1979, Maya had just finished her homework, she was on her last term studying her A levels in Mathematics, English and History. The school she attended was a mixed comprehensive school, Maya was looking to attend sixth form for before heading on to university to study mathematics, history and politics. As soon as she left the Mathematics block, Mr Greenock, the head Maths teacher gave her the title of a book that would help her, lucky for the school, he had its' own library block for staff and the general public. Maya had just fini...

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Isolation

Submitted to Contest #84

Waking up and looking out of the window, the roads are wet and there is dew on the leaves, Sharon decides to make a quick cuppa, to pass the morning before she starts to work. It is that time where hardly any thing is moving, she peers out one more time and see a few lights in the houses nearby still on. Walking in to the next room, she peers out again before finishing off making tea, and put slices of bread into the toaster, getting the marmalade and butter ready, the radio is on low, enough for her to hear, the smell of the toast lingers i...

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An extraordinary surprise

Submitted to Contest #77

Deep in the heart of the tropical mountains, where the greenery of the hills and the valleys stood out and the roads bends and forks in to different corners, until you approach the flat service and beyond that, lay a quaint cottage, surrounded by rows of plants, followed by exotic flowers and rows of fruit trees. Martha and Joe Bradshaw lived happily together along with their two children, Josh and Jodie. It was paradise for them, being self sufficient in everything. The cottage was single story with four bedrooms, a fair size kitchen...

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Our Little Treasure Cove

Submitted to Contest #75

Life on the island was a pure one, simple and complete. Dr Small lived with his wife Joanna on one of these islands in the Caribbean. It was business as usual to them as well as a way of life, generating great amounts of income, but this was no ordinary resort for those to get away, and it wasn't a holiday, it was something more or less to recharge the human body back to normality. The island was situated in the middle of the Caribbean sea on the Atlantic side, it was very self sufficient, with its' own airport, medical centre, restaurant ...

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The Empty Space

The Empty Space Scene one: Sacrificial ceremony: The humanoids are chanting. An empty space-suit lay on the ground where he left it, it was of no use to him anymore. His stained fingers pressed heavily on the steel plate as he began to walk away into the void. A painted image of a black star appeared in the sky for all to see, it was another sign of the day of reckoning. The moon appeared to be larger, leaving an orange glow around the outside. The alienated humanoids with tails had travelled several miles from another dimension to...

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It's not the end of the world...

Submitted to Contest #65

Josh turned 10 years of age on November 2nd, he was so excited to go trick or treating within the new neighbourhood. His parents, Sally and Jack moved into the area 3 weeks now with, Josh the youngest, Nadia, their teenage daughter, 17 and eldest son, Jeremy, 21, finishing his last term at university. Their grandmother, Irene moved with them after her husband, Sheridan passed away, and it was agreed to move her in with the family, so, overall, they were all new to the area. But, Josh was determined that he would make a friend or friends ...

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The unavoidable reunion

Submitted to Contest #61

Three men, decide to organise a trip to Europe, neither one of them had ever embarked on travelling outside the u k; the furthest one of them had travelled was London. They all lived sheltered lives, but none knew that the other shared a hidden secret that their folks knew nothing of. In their late 20's, and still living at home, all three worked for the same company, in one of the local packing warehouses, they never mingled with other folks within the warehouse, and were always seen every day taking tea-breaks and lunches or just st...

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The Journey

Submitted to Contest #59

They arrived at the airport on time, husband, Charlie, wife Lucretia and two teenage girls, Andrea and Martha, from their Canadian home in Quebec. This was going to be a trial run to see how they would get on within their new surroundings. The Andersen family were very well off and wanted to make a change to their way of life. Charlie worked as an architect for the local company, where the company was relocating some of their work abroad, while wife, Lucretia was a home-maker of textiles and design, she accumulated several clients which enab...

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The Message

Submitted to Contest #49

The rain pour outside, droplets falling heavily on to the window ledge, it was just a typical April morning, the day before was bright sunshine, but the following day, the rain drizzled lightly in the morning then it began to get heavier. Each person arriving into the warm reception area, were satisfied that it was warm and dry enough, the receptionist greeting them before escorting them into the waiting area. There was a long corridor with pictures on the wall of famous composers, and chaise lounges heavily embroidered at each corner. The...

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A time of change in the east

Submitted to Contest #47

It was at that unpredictable moment while looking out over the horizon, the hills in the valley in close proximity, and beginning to realise how long it would have to be before leaving from here. The different shades of green over the mountainous terrain, followed by the mist covering the hill tops, and the window pane full of dew in the corners, with a damp cloth brushing each droplet away, and looking out once more. High up in the hills, looking out again from the long veranda, surrounding itself with laundry on the make shift line, a sun ...

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