Em Everheart

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2024

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ā€œSpelling bee ā€ by Em Everheart

Submitted to Contest #280

Balancing a plate of cookies with one hand, I knocked on the heavy wooden door with the other. For a long moment, silence reigned, broken only by the faint shuffling of feet from the apartment next to the Millers. Thinking the young woman Iā€™d only seen in passing might not be home, I sighed in disappointment and turned to leave.The other families in the complex had mentioned that she was a beautiful young woman, often seen only in the early mornings or late afternoons. She barely had conversations, even with the people working at the conveni...

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ā€œThe spark ā€ by Em Everheart

Submitted to Contest #277

Thick snowflakes fell onto my hand as I stretched my arm out of the window. I shuddered and bit my lip in a silent scream as the freezing breeze seemed to creep under my skin and grace my bones. I was so close I could feel it. Just a little more, and I would feel that spark in my fingertips that I longed for. I had been close to feeling it last Saturday when the snow layers had been even thicker than they were now. In a desperate attempt to feel that flame, I had stood up and almost bent outward, reaching for the full moon that taunted me i...

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