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Cody Burrell

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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Hope

Cody Burrell

Submitted to Contest #77

Laury stood next to the window, a mug of hot chocolate in her hand. The curtains were closed, but she knew it was snowing: her leg had been aching all morning. She stared at the spot where the curtains fell together and took a sip of her drink. Her free hand drifted down to rub at her left hip. How many years had it been? Seven? Seven years and she was still living alone in the same little house. Seven years and she had only seen the snow twice. She turned away from the window and paused. Turning back, she slowly took hold of the edge of a c...

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Love and Dear

Cody Burrell

Submitted to Contest #76

Love: "I'm still mad at you. Flowers won't help." Dear: "Whatever happened to forgive and forget?" Love: "Fine, I will forgive you and then forget you." Dear: "Now, love, you know that's not what I meant." Love: "Don't touch my face when I am mad at you!" Dear: "How about you tell me what this is about? Woah, now, how many times have I told you that glare could kill a man?" Love: "Good thing you aren't a man, yet." Dear: "Ouch." Love: "Good! We're still not even." Dear: "I've only been gone a couple days, love." Love: "A ...

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Inaccurate: The Tale of an Incompetent Mage

Cody Burrell

Submitted to Contest #66

“It doesn’t count if you’re already planning your defeat, Zev.” "You always seem to be anticipating my defeat, why can't I?" "That- is just- grief, Zev, you can't possibly be thinking that by expecting to fail your magic will actually do what your heart is wanting, can you? You're magic knows, Zev. It knows." "That sounds ominous, Win, cut it out." "Your magic is ominous! Every time you use it it's like a portent of terrible things to come. Just watching you pull in magic makes my hair stand on end." "I thought that watching me pul...

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Highly Suspect

Cody Burrell

Submitted to Contest #59

*Note: words in this were intentionally spelled and used wrong. I am attempting to emulate western (cowboy) speech. I probably fell short a bit.* I hate travellin'. It takes forever, 'specially if'n your horse runs away and the scenery stays as same as my boot tread. The most interestin' things today had been a miniscule sand dune from the top of which I got a better view of the sand all 'round and a mite of a cloud that had drifted in front of the sun momentarily. Yessir, I hate travellin'. It were night afore I saw anything at al...

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Change

Cody Burrell

Submitted to Contest #58

I stepped into the rickety elevator and let my bag slam to the ground. Who had ever convinced me to take up teaching bowling as a career? Oh yeah, that's right. I sighed and leaned my head against the wall. Well, I guess Denny hadn't quite left me high and dry when she fired me. She had pestered me for weeks about taking up bowling as a side gig, she said I was so good at it and wouldn't I just love the extra income? I snorted. Extra income? Yeah right. They paid me diddly squat for the steady, and might I add well done, evening shifts that ...

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Dear Diary (or Journal...? Whatever)

Cody Burrell

Submitted to Contest #48

Journal Humphrey My Rise to Greatness January 1st Dear diary, Is this how these things start? I don't really know what I'm doing, it's just that I'm going to start using my powers and I figured that if anything deserved to be written down, that did. So here's hoping I can keep both resolutions! Oh, that makes me seem so juvenile! Good grief, off to a great start, aren't I. Oh, I didn't mean to write all this down! I'm just going to leave befor...

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