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A weekly short story contest
Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2024
Submitted to Contest #280
They say every person you meet has a story to tell. So let me tell you one of these stories.I only met him thanks to my friend Emma, who was an exchange student like me. She was a shy girl, the mousy type, as some would say, with gorgeous brown eyes, a quiet voice and a thick french accent. He was her host brother, eighteen years old, so two years older than me at the time, about as Irish as they come and the most annoying person I had met in a while. Everything about him seemed crooked. His nose, his teeth, his neck, the way he smirked. Eve...
Submitted to Contest #275
It had been hot all day. Now it was raining. He had spent the evening with friends in a bar and barely made it home without getting wet. The air was filled with the heavy, sweet smell of rain on asphalt. More slowly than usual, he unlocked his apartment door, hung the light summer jacket on the hook and put his shoes aside.He had just sat down on the couch with a cold beer when the doorbell rang. Who could that be? Although it was still warm, it was late, a quarter to twelve. He pressed the button of the bell system and waited at the door, o...
Submitted to Contest #269
Sirens really do exist. But they are not beautiful like in the stories.They are creatures of the deep sea that look bizarre and frightening and ugly. They have greenish, slimy scaly bodies that are very thin and about twice as long as a human body. Their eyes are big like turtle eggs and all black with a malicious sparkle in them. Sometimes they have hair, which is very long, black and covered with slime, but most of the sirens I have seen are bald. Their mouths are full of sharp pointed teeth. They eat human flesh. Men's flesh. Women don't ...
Submitted to Contest #268
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago there was a small kingdom. In fact, this kingdom was so small that it had little more than a few hundred inhabitants, a king and a pub. The king was young, handsome and not very stupid, so the people liked him. One in particular liked him and that was Mary, the daughter of the pub owner.Oh Mary! This Mary was the prettiest, smartest, and most cheerful girl anyone had ever seen. You could find her every evening in her father's pub, which was not strictly speaking the only pub in the kingdom, but it was ...
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