Hayley F

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2022

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2 Stories

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“The Toll of Atonement ” by Hayley F

Submitted to Contest #158

TW: Explicit Language, Mentions of Violence Jasper takes a drag off his cigarette. When he licks his lips he feels like he can taste the bitterness of the tobacco on them so he purses them together, rubbing them clean. Then he takes another hit. His dark hair falls below his ears lazily, covering the pink scar at his right temple. Although he was freshly washed, his stubble gives him the appearance of raggedness, abetted by his stained shirt and shorts. Dark eyes rest on the skyline outside, looking past the city into a world made...

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“Silver Linings ” by Hayley F

Submitted to Contest #157

Trigger Warning: Emotional Abuse, Substance Abuse, Mention of Death (nothing graphic), and Mental HealthMy mother had wanted to be a star. Her father was Polish, her mother Ukrainian, and together they immigrated with their children to America in the twenties, just before the dust bowl hit and left the nation in one of its poorest states since its conception. Her family survived on a diet of canned vegetables and hodgepodge soups that they threw together from their pitiful excuse of a garden during that time. Mother insisted this was gr...

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