Frances Hodgson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2023

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“Mondays” by Frances Hodgson

Submitted to Contest #269

Ever since that day at Whittleclose pebble beach with my father, I can’t get her words away from dancing on the fringes of my brain.He thought he had stopped me from hearing, that he had covered my ears fully; Coupled with the natural amnesic effects of fading youth and passage of time I believe he thought I had forgotten. Or he had hoped I had at least. Unfortunately her words had never left me, but as I grew older they had only grown clearer. That day had been as common as a grain of sand on the shore. Since mum had died my father and I ha...

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“In Morte Veritas” by Frances Hodgson

Submitted to Contest #249

Trigger Warning: Mental health, suicide/self harm, physical violence and gore. Sam’s ribs screamed furiously with each hurried pounding of his feet against the soil, the impact drumming through his soul, rattling his ribs like the bars of a cell. He knew he couldn’t keep running for much longer. Frenzied breath increasingly tightened his chest to that of a pressure vessel. A current of pain flung him through the air. The collision had let out such a sudden bang that he thought his lungs had finally popped, a dagger to a ballon, fragments of ...

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