Charlotte Daly

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2024

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3 Stories

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“A million moments” by Charlotte Daly

Submitted to Contest #290

It all started with a kiss.We had decided to meet up at a new bar in the city, one that had publicly declared itself, via social media, to be ‘AntiValentine’s’. I had offered to pick her up, but she declined, always afraid of being a nuisance. Late as I usually was, I rushed to meet her at the front of the building where she stood alone, shivering despite the lingering late-summer warmth. I smiled to myself at that: some things never did change. Even as the sky began darkening earlier and earlier, more and more leaves shedding their vib...

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“The tallest tower” by Charlotte Daly

Submitted to Contest #255

I thought this was love.Oh, I was foolish. I trusted him with my heart, with my whole being. When he whispered in my ear, his promises slipped into my dreams, colouring another world, a world made by the two of us, made bright by our future. We always said that once we escaped, the world would be ours. We were going to conquer the seas together, create calm where once was havoc. And now, I am left alone amidst an unforgiving ocean, waves taller than anything I have faced, ocean spray plummeting against me, pushing me deeper in...

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“Satan” by Charlotte Daly

Submitted to Contest #254

If I could dream, I would only have nightmares.That is why I do not sleep.I avoid the flaws of my creation, the turmoil that moves my world more consistently, even, than the axis on which it spins.If I were to reach down, to scoop up the clouds that shield me from the Earth, I would never be able to return to my place. In knowing the full extent of the chaos, of the violence, the injustice, the misery, I would have to cross out every line in that Holy book. For I am written by those tiny creatures to be good; I am made out an unmatched ...

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