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Daisy Goudan

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2021

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Spring Cleaning

Daisy Goudan

Submitted to Contest #93

This is a very important day. I’ve put off my Spring cleaning until already past the equinox so I’m not being a very seelie sprite. Really, I am though, promise. I just get distracted. Especially with Vivian, my Coyote friend, pregnant. I’m spending as much time in her home as my snug little Oak tree nest these days, helping her nesting instead of tending to my own bed. My father was a Hob… I can’t help but want to help my human sized friend, even if it means disregarding some of my responsibilities to my Oak tree home. That’s my excuse...

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Party Animal

Daisy Goudan

Submitted to Contest #93

Detective Timothy O’Carter “Move to a smaller city”, they said. “There’s still interesting cases, but no gang wars, and you’ll get promoted faster”, they promised. “They” were right. But what they failed to mention was that in this smaller city, interesting didn’t begin to describe some of the cases that we dealt with. Most of them, actually, now that I think of it. My first case in this to...

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Sunburnt

Daisy Goudan

Submitted to Contest #92

Ashley I rolled gracelessly out of bed at 5pm on a Saturday starving, with a dry mouth and a raging headache to find my alarm clock ringing (still, since 8am) and a phone full of missed calls and angry texts. Damn, I’m too old for this shit. I didn’t even drink that much last night, did I? My head is pounding so hard it feels like it wants to explode. It would hurt less if it did. More than...

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Look Between the Lines

Daisy Goudan

Submitted to Contest #91

Work-study in the library wasn’t supposed to change how I saw the universe. It was just supposed to pay for the things that my “women in STEM” scholarship didn’t cover. Then my entire life was turned upside down because I caught some girl trying to leave a book that wasn’t ours on the shelves. Honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way.Most of our security at the library is aimed at students trying to take things out that they shouldn’t. Things they haven’t checked out, or can’t because they’ve got overdue fines on their accounts. Magazines ...

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