Cristi Ropp

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2022

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“Toby” by Cristi Ropp

Submitted to Contest #148

As I drank my coffee, trying to get my brain to realize my body was actually out of bed and moving about the apartment without it I heard her giggle. "Uh! She's doing it again!" I grumbled as I made my way down the hall to Addy's room. "Same thing almost every morning for the last 2 weeks." Her door was open a bit, so I peeked in and there was my beautiful, amazingly intelligent daughter sitting on her bed talking and giggling with absolutely no one. "It's normal for children to have imaginary friends." they said. And when they are an ...

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“The Night They Came ” by Cristi Ropp

Submitted to Contest #147

As Jamie and I sat in the back of the movie theatre waiting for the mad rush for the bathrooms to thin out I felt a hot breath across the back of my neck. I brushed at it but it came again and with it the stench of burned matches. "You could have waited till we got outside for that." Jamie whispered. Just as I leaned over to tell her it wasn't me there was a guttural growl from the seat behind us. I turned only to come face to face with a fuzzy muzzle and a black nose as big as my face. I wanted to scream. I wanted to grab Jamie and run. ...

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