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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2024
The knife, being pulled back. The blood, splattering onto the cream carpet. And that damn cat, slinking away into the night… I blinked several times, as the camera shutters would soon be doing when the investigators came. The scene in front of me was the fourth in a series I, the county sheriff, had seen strung up all over the office. This was the sight of a terrible serial killing. I look down at the mutilated body of a young girl. I squat down, trying to make out identifiable features on her face to tell who she is. The blond hair was anyo...
Submitted to Contest #259
Waves that lap against the shore tell the time. The ebb and flow, the push and pull, they pump one second in and one second out. The ocean is constant. It does not bend to circumstances and is infinite. In its infinity is an all-consuming awe if you choose to see it. The ocean is the same ocean that it was millions of years ago, yet it remembers nothing. The explorers that first stormed through this beach in Florida left footprints that were to be erased, and the ocean forgets them. There is too much to remember already. The ocean stays the ...
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