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Fern Everton

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2022

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Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #306

CW: Implications of murder and blood. Viewer discretion is advised. Well, class of 2025, we did it! We reached the end! I’m so glad to see all of you here, smiling despite definitely sweating in your robes, so full of life and anticipation for your futures. It was rough this year, believe me, but you’re still graduating together, and for that I’m so proud. Give yourselves a round of applause! Now, I had a different speech planned, a version I’d been dreaming up since, what, eighth grade? Yes, I know, nerd alert! You can laugh but, really...

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In Contrast of Storms [LoE]

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #288

CW: This story contains swearing.(Oh, and full disclosure, two out of the three characters are very much queer, as am I)“Oh, fucking shit! It couldn’t have held out for two more minutes?!” Anthony screamed over the thunder. He seized my free arm, his steel grip startling me more than his scream and causing me to splash myself in the face with the soda I’d bought on our walk to school.“Damn it, Ant, I got soda in my eye!” I yelled, pulling my sleeve over my hand to wipe out the stinging drink. “Yeah, well, you’re about to have rain in yo...

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Ticking Timebomb

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #275

CW: This piece contains some swearing and sort of sensitive topics. Viewer discretion advisedIt’s 44 minutes to the deadline, yet I’m staring at a blank screen.A week to write a story and yet I’m here with 44 minutes and nothing to show for it— I barely decided on a prompt, nor the direction the story would go.But it’s not all my fault, is it? All I did this past week was run around— rehearsals on Monday and Tuesday, two clubs and a sectional on Wednesday, rehearsal and truck loading on Thursday, and a football game on Friday with a competit...

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Person in the Mirror

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #272

CW: This piece contains themes of trauma, mental health, and the effects of such (ex. self harm, suicidal ideation). This also includes some swearing. Reader discretion is advised.You thought you were finally rid of them, didn’t you?You cut them out of your life— blocked their socials, deleted their contact, told everybody who truly cared about you that you were through with them. You erased any traces of them in your home. You set out to find help so they couldn’t hurt you anymore. You found therapy and loving friends, yet it wasn’t enough....

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They’ll Call Me the Villain

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #267

CW: Swearing and some overall dark themesIt was overcast that day. I’d taken the long way home from school through the forest to see the leaves changing, a path I’d walked for the past eleven years of my school career. The only thing on my mind was the homework I needed to finish that night for film class, the career I’d planned to go after my entire life. For reasons that I, to this day, still do not understand, I missed the turn that would’ve taken me back home and thought I could correct it by simply taking a different one. The new route ...

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Some Broken Things

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #261

CW: This piece contains mentions of several sensitive topics, including themes of mental health issues, child abuse/neglect, and sexual harassment. Viewer discretion is heavily advised. Mom,I know we haven’t spoken in a few years, but I wanted to say this before I no longer have the chance. I can’t forgive you for the things you put me through— the screaming, the academic pressure, the neglect of my medical concerns—but I can at least appreciate what you did do that was good, which was giving me a roof over my head and food to eat. Thank you...

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Reality

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #259

CW: This story contains themes of terminal illness and death. It also contains light mentions of alcohol and swearing. Viewer discretion is advised. Victor was only nine years old when he was watching his parents argue constantly, the two of them separated from him by a pane of thick glass that blocked their words from reaching his ears. He followed their increasingly erratic gestures and watched their faces flip through expressions like channels on a TV, but paid special attention to their mouths, scanning the shapes they formed to decode ...

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Midnight Waltz

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #254

CW: This piece contains light profanity and mentions of violence. Viewer discretion is advised. This story and its title is inspired by the piece Midnight Waltz by David Garrett and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. I do not own anything of the piece and all rights belong to its rightful owners.  “I said no dancing!” “You said no distractions.” A mischievous glint plays in Blue Jay’s eyes as he drags me onto the shiny, slick dance floor. In a panicked attempt to not crash into two other dancers, my heeled shoe snags the tool of my dres...

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The Cusp of Chaos

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #251

CW: This piece contains religious themes that are not meant to accurately follow holy texts. It also includes profanity. Viewer discretion is advised.*All of the characters in this piece are entirely fictitious and are not based on real people. Any character that resembles any person— dead or alive— is purely coincidental.  “There is no god.” I read the opening line of the old manuscript aloud, its pages coated in dust and creased several times over from being buried in an old library until tonight. I don’t want to even look at the fol...

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Aren’t I Old Enough? [LoE]

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #250

CW: This is a fantasy story that includes some light religious themes. These are not meant to follow holy texts accurately. This story also contains several dark themes and light profanity (wow, big surprise). Viewer discretion is advised.  “‘Tis nothing but a twisted cycle.” These words, recited by my sister behind her closed bedroom door, were some part of an essay she’d written for a class. Perhaps I’d missed the context of the line— I found that odd since I’d been listening from the other side of the door for some minutes— but it f...

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Late!

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #249

CW: This piece contains some profanity as well as descriptions of physical violence and gore. Viewer discretion is advised. FUCK! I pound my fist into the dashboard of the old hunk of shit I call my car, an action that proves futile, unsurprisingly enough, to snap it back into gear. I then slam my foot down on the gas with just enough force to not knock it out of place. Though a quiver of energy runs through the piece of junk from the blow, the engine doesn’t cough or sputter back to life. It continues to sit stock still in the crumbling dri...

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One Night on the Jungle Gym

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #246

CW: This piece contains themes of mental health and some profanity. Viewer discretion is advised. “How’d you get to the top?”  “Climbed.” A boy about my age dangles his legs through one of the holes at the top of the old jungle gym. It’s thrice as high as the ones in the little kids’ playground, so much so that the leaves of the trees just about kiss it. Its shiny steel bars are blanketed in a thick layer of rust and grime that flakes when you touch it. Nevertheless, this boy sits at the top without a care in the world, seemingly obliv...

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To Be Heard

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #244

Content Warning: This story is set during the Holocaust through the eyes of a fictional character. This story will contain themes of violence and death, and depictions of Nazi occupation in Poland, as well as anti-Semitic themes (which I do not support). Extensive research has been done to ensure this text is as historically accurate as possible. Any relation to real people is purely coincidental. Viewer discretion is advised.  There are two days in my childhood that time will never take: the day I got my camera and the day it almost c...

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Doomed

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #243

CONTENT WARNING: This piece contains descriptions of violence, gore, and some profanity. Viewer discretion is advised. A shrill wail jolts me from the quiet darkness of sleep to the glare of LED lights flooding an unfamiliar room. The ground I lay on is hard and cold— have I rolled off my bed again? Another wail prompts me to push my upper body off the ground; the setting before me tilts and spins like I’ve just staggered out of an old rollercoaster. I squeeze my eyes shut against the bright, dizzying room and clench my teeth to fight back ...

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Caged Birds

Fern Everton

Submitted to Contest #237

CONTENT WARNING: This piece includes mentions and descriptions of physical and sexual violence towards children. It deals with trauma. If you are uncomfortable with the aforementioned topics, please do not proceed. Reader direction is advised. This will be your only warning. One night, I wanted a bird. I wanted to buy a shiny silver cage so it couldn’t escape. I wanted it all to myself. Several nights later, I gazed blankly at the shafts of moonlight that filtered through a grimy, broken window, its glass scattered on the rotting wooden flo...

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