Chloe Jones

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2024

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Sob Story of a Lonely Youth” by Chloe Jones

Submitted to Contest #253

"I wish we could stay here forever." It seems like everyone knows this phrase. It's in the sobby vocals of your favorite cry-in-the-car song, in the not-so-subtle messages of young teenage Disney movies talking about "enjoying your youth," and it's probably something your parents and your parents' parents tell you every Christmas. Maybe that's just me, though. I haven't ever taken the thought seriously, as I'm 21, and the world moves by so fast it's hard to see the memories in the motion blur. In the middle of college, you're so wrapped up i...

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“Vititi Fames” by Chloe Jones

Submitted to Contest #252

The tide was brash and roaring, as it always was out in the great blue whirlpool where I had found myself a frequenting neighbor. Upstairs, on the deck, I heard the muffled shouting of scraggly men who had wasted away their years forming thick calluses on their hands and thicker hunger for beer and brandy. They paid me mind, sometimes, only when I had to come up from my forsaken little hole of damp barrels and barnacle-infested crates to scrounge for sustenance and drink. The brutes, well… they were a far contrast from those I would have rat...

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Author bio

We all need a bit of mystery in our lives.