Chantel Chamonix

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2020

Stories (6)

6 Stories

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“A Boy's Haircut” by Chantel Chamonix

Submitted to Contest #33

I remember the day it all began in vivid clarity. My mother had attempted to cut my hair. I wish she were still alive so that I could thank her, for without such a massive blunder, the course of my life may have been very different. Some mothers are better at this task than others but mine was a superior novice. It had started out alright, she’d begun by washing my matted rusty curls. The mud caked into my hair matched the mud stains on my skirts and stockings. My mother called me a tomboy and smiled. After the washing, my hair w...

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“Some Things Aren't Meant to Last” by Chantel Chamonix

Submitted to Contest #32

Miranda scanned the carpeted floor of her kindergarten classroom. Someone, or several someones, had been playing with the Barrel of Monkeys and had made an impressive chain that connected the backs of two unused classroom chairs together. She smiled despite herself. It took a lot of time and patience to carefully connect each plastic monkey’s arms together to form a chain of that length. She’d been working with the kids on putting the toys away where they’d found them. At the beginning of the school year, she’d painstakingly labeled al...

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“The Laundry Trick” by Chantel Chamonix

Submitted to Contest #31

Shelly froze momentarily as she entered the dorm’s laundry room. Loading up a dryer was one of the most gorgeous men that she’d ever seen in her life. The ratty Queen t-shirt he wore strained to keep his muscular torso under wraps. He was lean in a way that had he been wearing normal clothes, you would have struggled to notice how toned he really was. His hair was lovingly tousled as was the trend with college boys. A flash of anger caused her to slam her basket down on the folding table harder than she meant to. She sighed. She ...

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“Cursing at Murals” by Chantel Chamonix

Submitted to Contest #30

Yvette ran her hands through her hair. It was dark around her. And cold. And she was pretty sure the man in the mural across the street just winked at her. She had not needed that last shot of tequila. Screw Milo for messing up her night out. How was it fair that she got kicked out of the nightclub when Milo was the one accidentally falling and groping every woman he passed. He really shouldn’t have been surprised when she accidentally dented his face in after he accidentally pulled down her top. Fuck little boys with big connections. She kn...

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“When All Grows Dark” by Chantel Chamonix

Submitted to Contest #27

“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” – Pierce Brown “Welcome. The destination of this train is Providence, Rhode Island.” Providence. The irony is marked. There’s no protection in Providence for me, no divine shelter. "Please have your tickets or passes ready to present to the conductors as they walk through the train. Additionally, please be aware that our complimentary wifi will not be available on this train, we apologize for the inconvenience.” As the automated recording came to a fi...

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“The Musical Gauntlet” by Chantel Chamonix

Submitted to Contest #26

I hesitated for a moment at the front door. Should I knock? Ring the bell? Just walk in? Ugh, I was being stupid. I’ve walked through this same forest green door a million times. The sounds of laughter, music, and shouting were already echoing through the house. No one would even hear the doorbell if I did ring it, but once everyone found out that I’d rung the doorbell to my own house… well, no one inside would let me live that down. I swallowed hard. Looking over at my companion, I forced what I hoped passed for a smile onto my face, ...

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Author bio

Chantel Chamonix is the author of several critically acclaimed novels yet to be written. She is a future RITA Award winner and New York Times Bestseller. Prior to becoming a full-time novelist, she did things that seemed like a good idea at the time.