Elizabeth Melchior

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2022

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3 Stories

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“Believing & Knowing” by Elizabeth Melchior

Submitted to Contest #257

In the Theater World, the word “historical” is code for super haunted. Though not having ever believed in ghosts herself, Maesie learned this fact after being invited by her upperclassmen friend, Kenzie, to the end of summer Theatre Troupe 6730 slumber party. Little did she know that come the fall play, she would quickly learn that believing is one thing, and knowing is another. The theater auditorium is the oldest building at Lakedale High and has always been said to have been plagued by the ghost of the first-ever theater...

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“A Trip to Target” by Elizabeth Melchior

Submitted to Contest #202

Walking through the sliding doors of a Target store is a familiar experience. It is predictable and safe, especially when they are the same doors you have walked through consistently throughout your twenty-six years of existence. However, walking through them for the first time after living somewhere else for a year can feel like a fever dream. The familiar gust of AC when you first enter now feels aggressive, the bright fluorescent and flashes of red carts and baskets zooming by seem surreal, and the same faces you have seen in passing all ...

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“Caudral” by Elizabeth Melchior

Submitted to Contest #159

Regret is a funny thing. Some days it flows through every vein in my body. I feel it in me & I wear it like a sweater, hood up and all-consuming. Having just turned 25, I look back on the first half of my twenties and physically cringe at each decision I made that led me to move back into my childhood bedroom. The genesis being getting into a relationship at twenty-one with Eddie from history and ending with believing his, “It’s nothing. I don’t even know her,” when regarding suspicious emails between him and Theresa from Accountin...

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