Emma Elias

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2023

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2 Stories

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“Letter of resignation” by Emma Elias

Submitted to Contest #277

A Letter of ResignationTo His Royal Highness, King Cole. Let me begin my correspondence by congratulating you on the recent marriage of your son, Prince Charming, to the very amiable Princess Cinderella; I am so very glad that the assistance of every officer in our council in the inspection of the feet of every young woman in the council, proved to in the end be worthwhile. With no one to enforce the law, the crime rate for that day was perhaps the highest recorded in the last five years, but all that is no matter, as long as the young coup...

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“After Sixty Years” by Emma Elias

Submitted to Contest #265

Sixty years. It had been sixty years since Aida had breathed such unpolluted air into frail and disease ridden lungs, sixty years since she had smelt the blend of fresh pine and olive groves, sixty years since she had stepped foot in the village of her birth. The gravel rolled beneath her boots, she had been much more nimble, much more lithe the last time she had walked this path – or rather, the last time she had run this path, clutching her younger brothers shaking hand and following their father through the night – red and yellow flashes ...

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