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Crystal Bass

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2022

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The Barlowe Estate

Crystal Bass

Submitted to Contest #135

Being raised in a home where things were meticulous didn't make life easy. Every spoon, fork, knife, plate, put away with precision. Every afternoon the shelves-wiped from top to bottom. The floors mopped until they sparkled. The windows washed until they were practically invisible. Every bed in every room, occupied or not, changed daily. The staircase-polished to a spectacular shine every morning. Precision and perfection was the theme of the Barlowe estate. The gardens sprawled the entirety of the estate. Everywhere you turned, exotic fl...

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What are friends for

Crystal Bass

Brnggggg...... Brnggggg...... "not again," thought Frogman. "I thought I had it this time." But he knew, as the bell was sounding off, that he had not been able to trick the system this time. Before he could even think about hopping away, in flew Spaceman. Escaping from Spaceman's sight, Frogman breathed a sigh of relief. "That was close, '' he said under his breath. "I need to access the system and see what they have updated. I don't want to mess up again. Especially if Spaceman is going to show up every time." Frogman begins to shiver at t...

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The Walters Telescope

Crystal Bass

Submitted to Contest #134

What if there were spiders or scorpions under the boxes?? There was no way I wanted to be the one to find out. I was very interested in searching through the valley of boxes that lined the walls of my grandpas attic. There was were boxes of all sizes and shapes. Red boxes, blue boxes, small boxes, large boxes, boxes with labels and boxes without. But the box that caught my attention the most was a tall slender box in the corner. It had Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) imprinted on the box. On the left side, a shipping label read: ...

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