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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020
Submitted to Contest #98
I woke with a start. There were cold beads of sweat on my forehead. My heart was beating out of my chest. Cliché signs of a terrible, violent dream, but mine had been the opposite of that. It was not a meaningless dream. It was a truthful, ominous vision. My alarm clock blinked at me from across the room. 05:57 said the bright red numbers; they stood out against the sage green of my walls. My head throbbed with the blinking of the clock. Of course, it happened in my sleep, but it was no silly fear or a hallucination filled with monsters hi...
Submitted to Contest #54
           Hell. Demons. Dead. Where else could I be? There was fire everywhere, tortured screams and thick grey smoke. I was hardly breathing, yet the sulphurous air felt like it was burning my insides. I felt a strange sense of intuition as if my lungs had near-frozen drops of blood dripping down the side of them. My lungs were not the only parts of me feeling like it was bleeding. The sound I had thought was screaming was unendurably, but undeniably horrible soprano singing. An u...
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