Chrissy Winters

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2023

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Lucy” by Chrissy Winters

Submitted to Contest #204

"Dr. Cooper, the patient in room four is ready." Lucy gripped the hospital bed rails and gritted her teeth. Beads of sweat fell down her face.  An equally sweaty nurse named Jen who had a practical short haircut and was wearing Christmas tree scrubs, hung up the phone and came around the bed, placing her cool hand on Lucy's forehead.“It’s so damn hot in here!” Lucy groaned. “I know, honey. The air conditioning in the maternity ward is on the fritz. They should get it fixed soon.”“It’s 100 degrees outside. They better get ...

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“A Mountain Divides Us. ” by Chrissy Winters

Submitted to Contest #202

Nila snuffed her cigarette out on the bottom of her worn burgundy Doc Martin boot, and gulped a breath of blue tinged, ethereal misty air. She was sitting at the bottom of Silverburn mountain waiting, like she did every Sunday night.Tapping her foot impatiently she reached into her back pocket to check her phone. You’ve got to be kidding meThere were no messages and it was eight forty five. Devon was late. “Where the fuck is he?” Nila was fooling herself by asking herself that rhetorical little question because she k...

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Author bio

Chrissy Winters, a writer of speculative fiction from rural Ontario, takes great satisfaction in breathing life into the many characters that live in her head. As a proud mom of three, wife, and dog mom of two, she finds solace in the world of storytelling, fueled by a combination of coffee and exercise.