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Hannelore VdC

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2024

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Servant

Steven opened his eyes and saw … nothing. Pitch-black darkness. He blinked his eyes a few times. The motion was weird without the visual input of it. His next impulse was to sit up, so he did.He bumped his head hard on a surface above him. The feeling of it was strange. Of the bumping, not so much the surface above him. Anyway, he knew it was supposed to hurt, and he instinctively raised a hand to cover his forehead, but he didn’t feel much at all. He registered the impact, yes, but it was void of any reactionary result.Steven felt around to...

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Reflection

Submitted to Contest #274

She had made a mistake. A big one. Massive. Gargantuan?Lora shook her head and smiled, knowing very well that she was trying to cheer herself up by taking things out of proportion. Still, it might have been a bit of a mistake.She remembered the day well when she decided to pack things up and move to the countryside. That day, again, she had been overlooked for a promotion. Why? She had no idea. Her managers had never said more than that they believed person x or y was better suited for the job. Never any clues as to what made them better. Ne...

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Scars

Submitted to Contest #272

Trigger warning note: Depression, self-harm, dissociation She could hear screaming. Lots of it. Sometimes one voice, sometimes many, but non-stop, never-ending, constant screaming. Like the background noise of a radio you couldn’t quite hear anymore but couldn’t entirely ignore either. There were words and sentences strewn among the meaningless sounds, yet she could never understand them. Always out of reach. Never to be fully heard. But she knew their meaning, if she cared to listen. Tumbled, knotted, complicated strings of pain, all exclai...

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