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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020
Submitted to Contest #47
The faint light from your alarm clock casts your cluttered bedside table in a red glow. As you watch the blocky numbers shift from 3:59 to 4:00. The alarm itself—a noisy, dinging, vibrating affair—won’t go off for another half hour, but you throw back your bedspread and rise anyway. After unplugging your alarm to keep it from going off later you cross the room in two silent strides. Your desk sits before you, empty but for a set of clothes. Here the faint light from the window makes everything appear only as shapes and outlines in varying ...
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