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Hayley Jacobson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2024

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My Little Sparrow

Submitted to Contest #304

She reminded me of a sparrow as she flit across the road. Her soft grey cardigan danced in the wind, while her legs, draped in tight brown pants, moved with precise dedication to the coffee shop in front of her. I saw her just about every day, wearing nearly the same outfit for each corresponding day of the week. Dark reds were Monday, Blues on Tuesday, and today, Wednesday, was supposed to be pink. I wondered what changed to upset her routine. Maybe it was an upset with the laundry room in her apartment complex. Or, maybe, she was branchin...

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Hidden Friends

Submitted to Contest #296

If you had ever asked Crystal Smith what she would think of the little people who lived in her walls, she would have called you insane. It’s a well-known fact that little people — fairies, brownies, pixies, or others of the sort — didn’t exist. But as her radio turned itself on for the third time in as many weeks, blasting the Queen’s Greatest Hits CD she’d been forbidden to remove, to wake her up, she would say her answer had changed.“Up! Up! That thing is coming again!” A squeaky but somehow still booming voice called out. Crystal groaned,...

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