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Emma McManus

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021

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Sounds like Perfection

Emma McManus

Submitted to Contest #109

*This is based on True Events. Only names have been changed* … Searching for a job can feel like looking for water in a desert. I was scrolling through ad after ad looking for jobs wanting photographers but most of the jobs ended up being volunteer work, so no payment. It meant gaining experience but experience doesn’t pay the bills. After a few weeks of looking, I finally spotted an ad that was a paying job. I immediately clicked onto it and started to read the details. It was a new Record Label who was looking for a...

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Little Black Book

Emma McManus

Submitted to Contest #92

A melodic shrill woke me from my sleep. I wasn’t long in bed, having just completed a nightshift. I turned onto my back and rubbed my eyes as a single line of sunlight leaked through my curtains. I turned my head to see my phone lighting up on my beside table. The melodic shrill that had woke me was my ringtone. I must have forgotten to put it on vibrate. I grunted and glanced at the screen just in time to see that it said private number. I often got private number calls, it came with the territory of being a Doctor but if it ...

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10 Minutes Past Midnight

Emma McManus

Submitted to Contest #90

We were all warned. The Doomsday Clock is nearing midnight but I don’t think any of us really paid attention. The furthest it had been from midnight was in 1991; sitting at 17 minutes to midnight but it steadily declined after that. When we reached 2019, I think the Earth fought back. We had polluted Her for so long and we had given Her no choice but a global pandemic. Pandemic X, that’s what they called it. They had also warned us about that for since the Spanish Influenza in 1918 but with every new virus we continued to thi...

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Stolen Year

Emma McManus

Submitted to Contest #84

I slowly opened my eyes and stared up at the ceiling. My head was throbbing and I had a ringing in my ears. The lighting was so dim that it took my eyes several minutes to acclimate to the gloom. I slowly sat up and winched in agony. I clutched my hand to my side and let out a small whimper, the pain was so intense that I couldn’t even manage a scream. I gingerly lifted up my shirt and saw that I had a bandage haphazardly wrapped around my lower abdomen. The part of my side that I had touched had faint traces of red soaking through. I lowere...

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