Cosette Jenkins

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

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“Midnight in the Mountains ” by Cosette Jenkins

There was never much to note about Pearl, West Virginia. Like the rest of the state, it was scarcely populated and stood, dejected, among the long since mined-out mountains. Pearl was a ghost, frozen in time. The rumbling of the truck on the unkempt road mimicked the uneasy turning of June's stomach. She used to keep the windows down, but after the second cheese splattered wrapper had found its way into the brown coils of her hair, she decided the drive was better with the windows up. Town was just the way June remembered it. The two ga...

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“Speeding Ticket Jones ” by Cosette Jenkins

Submitted to Contest #149

Tia’s Grill had been on this street since before Damien was born, and seeing as how it was always full of people, would probably be there long after he was gone. There was a different mural painted on each wall, with colorful paper decorations hung neatly from the ceiling. The bar was in the center of the place, lit mostly by the three mini tv’s put up in the back by the all the bottles of liquor. The regular bartender was there, mixing drinks to make his own sort of magic.  ‘Alcohol magic would probably be pretty useful’ he thou...

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Sometimes I write stories so the imaginary people in my head get a little publicity 😂