Hayden Quinn

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

Stories (3)

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“Onto The Next Adventure” by Hayden Quinn

Submitted to Contest #140

“I remember when this was an awful lot easier,” Jeff spluttered, tugging the metal shutter upward for the final time. He lowered his gaze instinctively, knowing from years of experience that the early morning sun glinting off the windows would be enough to temporarily, and painfully, blind him. Every morning, since long before his hair turned gray and began to depart, Jeff had completed the whole ritual of opening his Pa...

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“The time in between ” by Hayden Quinn

Submitted to Contest #81

He’s going to love this so much. The dinner table looked exactly as it had exactly a year ago, the night that he proposed. I’d taken so many photos of the evening, it had made it easy to replicate the setup. I’d even driven across town to the specific butcher that we’d gotten the leg of lamb from that day, to go with the carefully prepared cheddar and chive mash I’d made. I knew there was a good chance ...

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“Not yet” by Hayden Quinn

Submitted to Contest #60

Content warning: suicide attempt, allusions to rape. The world had become a wasteland. Until it happened, Tabitha hadn’t understood what that truly meant. When she had read it in novels, seen it pictured on screen in movies, she hadn’t fully appreciated what it meant. Now that she was living in it, she would do anything to not know anymore. All around her, the empty ground had been ruined. What ...

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Author bio

Hayden Quinn is a mental health worker, and writer from the UK. She writes short horror and romance stories, and YA novels which can be found on Amazon.