Elizabeth Whitehead

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2024

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“Cold Case” by Elizabeth Whitehead

Submitted to Contest #291

The hounds bayed, rushing into the woods with flocks of people chasing after them, torches in hand and focused expressions scrawled across their faces. A grim smile was painted across my partner’s face, illuminated every now and then by the stray flash of torch light. “They caught the scent.” She was only stating the obvious with the way we were rushing through the forest, only a few steps behind the line of officers with big dogs pulling at their harnesses. It was more a confirmation, an exclamation of relief. Though in this business,...

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“Myrsky” by Elizabeth Whitehead

Submitted to Contest #288

MyrskyI stood atop the giant slab of ancient rock that bordered the raging ocean. Today it was blue-grey, rough and choppy, and even though the weatherman had predicted no storm, the locals knew better. It was windy atop the cliff, my clothes were buffeted by a gale that wasn’t out of the ordinary for Myrsky, the town I had lived and breathed for the last… well, for my entire life. No one truly knew where the name Myrsky had come from, but many historians speculated that the village was the place where our ancestors had landed, over te...

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