Debbie Archibald

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2023

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“The Bad Word ” by Debbie Archibald

Submitted to Contest #250

The Bad Word-(one profane word in content) 1962 Ohio, United States suburbs Jilly Day lived in Bedford, Ohio. Today she learned where Ohio was because her teacher, Miss Gruss, showed her first-graders on the colorful map on the classroom wall. Ohio was orange. Now Jilly was home from school, out of her St. Pius X green plaid uniform. She was sporting her favorite Bert and Ernie pullover, blue jeans and sneakers. In her front yard, she tossed her softball in the air-sometimes catching it, most of the time chasing it down. An only ...

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“Vanator ” by Debbie Archibald

Submitted to Contest #215

The deluge of icy water soaked Sorina. Thunder exploded; lightning blazed. In-between, all was pitch. It wasn't the rainstorm terrifying her. It was the black figure appearing and disappearing throughout Forest Park, each time whispering in her ear, “She is mine. She is mine.” Two Romanian vampyrs had once battled for the love of Sorina’s mother, Marian Bane. The vampyr who lived, returned twenty years later to stake claim on her mother. Now she was gone – against her will. A crash of thunder, so powerful the ground shoo...

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