Hadley C

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

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“Lips” by Hadley C

Submitted to Contest #104

“I was relaxing on the sofa when she called. When I picked up, she asked me if I would make it to the party that night. I gave a generic excuse about needing to get sleep for an early morning at work the next day. Maybe I said I wasn’t feeling well. I don’t remember, but Jackie said something in response before the line cut out. It was the last time I spoke to her-” I paused before adding, “It didn’t seem unusual for the phone to give out like that. I would have called back if I had thought something might have happened.”“I knew I sounded pa...

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“The Shift” by Hadley C

Submitted to Contest #39

I had heard about the project to change the rotational direction of Earth for the first time in grade school. In second-grade, Teddy Sutton’s dad came in with a big model of the planets that had been commissioned by his work that conducted research on switching the tradewinds. He let us take turns spinning the planets in any direction we wanted and sent us home with our own plush ball that looked like the Earth. Teddy got to be the line leader for three days in a row after that.My fourth-grade teacher, Ms. Janis, had a short bob haircut that...

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