Debra Widdicombe

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

Stories (4)

4 Stories

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“Reflection in the Mirror” by Debra Widdicombe

Submitted to Contest #101

The silvery glass reflected my image back to me with absolute clarity and I didn’t like the reflection I saw in that mirror.A female athlete in her prime, disqualified by a simple decision to smoke weed before the Olympics. To hell with all of them!If so many of the States allowed weed, why wasn’t I allowed to smoke a little when I felt low or even for pleasure. It wasn’t exactly performance enhancing, or was it? Maybe a little medicinal, to help me relax. I felt angry. I felt sad. I felt as if I had let myself and my family down. My adoptiv...

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“The Dragon Princess” by Debra Widdicombe

Submitted to Contest #88

As a transformative Dragon, I was able to fly faster than any other female Dragon and to fight as well as, if not better, than most of the male Dragons. As a warrior Princess in the land of Dragons, I had led a privileged life, with my father as the King of all the Dragons in Dragonland. He had three sons and a daughter. As his only daughter and the eldest child, I was treated as a special member of the Royal family and given my own Castle to live in, within a dense forest. I was happy walking in the forest and flying in the blue sky above...

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“Second Chance at School” by Debra Widdicombe

Submitted to Contest #54

My first chance at High School was not an unmitigated disaster, as some teachers may have thought, but part of growing up. Being a teenager meant going through the growing pains of learning about myself, my strengths, and weaknesses. It was a time of succeeding and of failing. At the time, when I reached graduation, I decided to delay my passion for classical music and composition, to follow a standard Accounting and Business tertiary education that my parents had come to expect from my HSC results. Many years of work later and I suddenly ha...

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“Rocket to the Moon” by Debra Widdicombe

Submitted to Contest #52

The black cat gingerly stepped over the dead body lying between its current location and the mouse. It sniffed cautiously and turned up its nose at the stench of the decaying human corpse. The tiny mouse ran as fast as it could to get away from the predatory cat, squeezing through a tiny gap in the wall until the mouse found itself in a large concrete area. This area lay below the rocket boosters of the space rocket that was scheduled to take off in a few minutes. The mouse had no idea it had wondered into a more dangerous area. At the time,...

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Author bio

I'm an author who writes as a hobby, as a form of creative expression. One day when I retire, I may spend more time writing and sharing my stories with others. I love to read other people's stories too!