Emily Hostetter

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2020

Stories (6)

6 Stories

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“A Stupid New Year's Love Story” by Emily Hostetter

Submitted to Contest #231

Ten. So this is how it ends? Nine. At the stroke of midnight, the illusion will shatter, and I’ll be turned back into a pumpkin. Eight. That’s fine. Go ahead and laugh. Seven. Just keep on dancing and drinking and having a grand old ...

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“13 Ways to Come Back to Life” by Emily Hostetter

Submitted to Contest #231

**Sensitive Content Warning**Grief & LossNew Year’s Resolutions1. Learn to Breathe AgainI’m not sure when I stopped.But somewhere between the end and happily never after, I stopped breathing.I fear I’ve forgotten how.I fear that when I begin again, I will break apart at the seams. Isn’t breathing painful?The oxygen is suffocating.But they tell me it’s vital to my survival…As...

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“Day 201” by Emily Hostetter

Submitted to Contest #192

**Sensitive Content Warning** Loss of a child & suicidal thoughts Day 84: Tik tok The clock on the wall mocks me. With every passing second, the darkness grows, weaving its way through my veins until I’m ice cold. I wish I could tell you that I’m better now. After all, it’s been months. But how do you p...

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“Darkness, My Old Friend” by Emily Hostetter

Submitted to Contest #190

**Sensitive Content Warning**Mental health & murder“Speak now or forever hold your peace.”No one is more shocked than I when my mouth is the one that opens. “I can’t.”My whisper may as well have been a shout in the hushed chapel.Every horrified look in the room is pointed at me. Guess I’ve finally snapped. I drop my gaze, too much of a coward to look at the pools of hurt swirling...

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“Regret” by Emily Hostetter

Submitted to Contest #72

“Falling in love with you was never the plan, you know,” I stated, looking down at my hands, pretending to inspect my fingernails, but honestly, I was just trying to avoid making eye contact with him. “Rebecca and Frank tried to set us up long before we ever met, but I had absolutely no interest in dating the man that she described to me. “Rebecca told me all about how you worked for Frank’s constructio...

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“Author” by Emily Hostetter

Submitted to Contest #62

In the darkest corner of the old library sat a book, forgotten about centuries ago. Its crumbling spine barely kept the brittle pages contained inside, and the dust lay on the cover like a blanket. But this was no ordinary book, for it contained the secrets of the past and wishes for the future and it sat waiting for its new author to discover it and fulfill a prophecy as old as the dawn of time. Ella p...

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