Menu

Menu

Prompts

Contests

Stories

Blog

Directory

Contests

Magazine

FAQ

ErikAnne Davis

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2019

Stories (10)

Comments

Library

8 Followers

2 Following

10 Stories

184 karma pts

?

The Rabbit Incident (and Other Dubious Legends)

Submitted to Contest #299

The Rabbit Incident (and Other Dubious Legends)The chairs on Myrtle’s porch creaked with age—like their occupants—but nobody minded. It was Tuesday, and Tuesday was “Tall Tale Time,” a weekly gathering of Freedonia’s finest vintage citizens. There was Earl with his hearing aid permanently set to “selective,” Doris who claimed to have once dated Elvis (the real one, not the impersonator), and of course, our narrator: Roger “The Magnificent,” part-time amateur magician, full-time retired janitor.Roger wore his magician’s cape over his Hawaiian...

1 like

A Bridge Over Broken Waters

Submitted to Contest #298

**A Bridge Over Broken Waters** The storm had battered Everspring for hours, leaving the river swollen and angry. Caleb Greene stood at the window of his modest home on the edge of town, watching the water rise and feeling the familiar weight of guilt pressing against his chest. Seven years ago, he had designed a bridge—a bridge that collapsed during a flood like this one, taking lives with it, including that of a young boy named Daniel. Caleb had never forgiven himself, retreating to the outskirts of town to live quietly and anonymously, pa...

8 likes

Edge of Destiny: A Tale of Light, Love and Truth

Submitted to Contest #298

Below is a novel that weaves together the threads of mystery, occult terror, and the redemptive power of unity—a tale that begins with tragedy and unfolds into an epic confrontation with darkness. Enjoy: --- # Edge of Destiny: ## A Tale of Light, Love, and Truth --- ### Prologue – The Lost Innocence On a cool autumn night at LSU at Sabine Bay, a dreadful discovery shattered the quiet routine of campus life. In a secluded corner behind an old art building, Charlie stumbled upon the body of Lucy Merrill—a bright, young college student whose p...

8 likes

Harper's Ruin

Submitted to Contest #154

September 28th, 1982The world wouldn’t have blinked if Tommy hadn’t broken his leg...They’d been out fuckin’ around in the woods near their neighborhood, he and his friends, pretending to be shipwrecked pirates exploring the dangerous island. His friend, Harper, who was the Pirate Queen (mostly because she came up with the game and partly because she was kinda mean when she needed to be) had agreed to let him and Marcus climb a nearby tree to scout the area. Marcus had successfully argued that the Pirate Queen would order her minions to do s...

11 likes

Pretending To Be Myself

Submitted to Contest #107

I have been waking up everyday pretending to be me for nearly four decades.It was an evening in August of 1984 that the world blinked. I was standing at the screen door, an oldies song was playing on the radio, the setting sun making a silhouette of the houses and woods across the street. The scent of late summer barbecue drifting by mixing with that hint on the breeze that it would soon be autumn. My family was sitting out on the front porch talking with neighbors and listening to the schools marching band practice as the custodians made ce...

8 likes

Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

Submitted to Contest #103

“Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder” I’d never tried the drink before. After the shit week I’d had an Iberian style bar in the middle of a bombed out downtown Tokyo seemed the perfect opportunity. “Coming right up.” The bartender was pretty in that generically androgynous j-pop way that had become globally popular towards the end of the last decade. In fact most of the crowd in the small bar were all of the same type. A few people stood out here and there. Being marginally more pretty or handsome than whatever clichéd cluster they were sta...

13 likes

Southern Hospitality

Submitted to Contest #77

"What the frilly fuck?" Edwina Walker, known to friends and family as Neddie, mumbled to herself as she gazed out the dining room window of the Smithson's Forest Hills B&B where she lived and worked. Snow was coming down pretty thick. Which did happen on occasion in North Georgia though usually not in summer, three days before the 4th of July. "Hey y'all come looka this." She called out to those back in the kitchen getting breakfast ready."Hang on." Macon, the adopted son of the owners, called out. Neddie thought he was a sweet kid, thou...

10 likes

Knight Moves

Submitted to Contest #75

"Alright, I'm never time traveling on internal reserves again!" Jake was staring at themselves in the mirror. The last time Jake had travelled back in time was five years ago after the murder of their brother Devlin. The price for that had been 15 years off of their life.Around that time Jake had been going through a transition process in an attempt to make themselves more androgynous. Unfortunately, for them, the mana in their system had been accelerating the testosterone causing Jake to take on a more masculine look than they were aiming f...

6 likes

Knight Shift

Submitted to Contest #74

9:59 am Dec. 31, 2020Auld Opifex, usually called Aul’ifex by it’s current inhabitants, was the creative heart of the bustling metropolis of New Modorsberg. Once the district for the Craftsman Guilds it was now home for the cities Artist’s Guild. Though there were still legacies from the former in place names such as Weaver Street Tavern and Mason’s Row Cafe. Recently suffering a bout of gentrification the main thoroughfares in Aul’ifex had become relatively safer for most travelers. Though the byways could still be perilous to the unwary, de...

6 likes

Winter Knights

Submitted to Contest #73

“Heyla Queerdo, where the hell have you been? We missed you.” Jake Rollins turned to see their friend Kris a beaming smile on his still youthful looking and handsome face, though he was now pushing towards 50 much like Jake. “Heyla Vampiro, taken over the World of Darkness yet?” Kris just laughed “Next Tuesday. Seriously man, missed you, plus there was a pretty sweet gig we could’ve used your mad drummer skillz on.” Jake sighed “Yeah, sorry about that man, there was a bunch of family issues a few months ago. I just needed to get away a...

9 likes