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Heather Koelle

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2022

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LOST It was winter,2024, I think , when the nightmare began.Oh, it started out fine. I was planning to visit two friends, both residing at The Quadrangle in Bryn Mawr.I planned to leave at one of clock in the afternoon, looking forward to seeing my two long-time girlfriends despite knowing they lived at opposite ends of the luxurious senior living apartments, nestled among a myriad of trees and natural surroundings. I got in my battered old white Impala, circa 2007, covered with battle scars from my many encounters with telephone poles and...

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A Blink of an Eye

Submitted to Contest #234

A Blink of an Eye Elise heard the lunch trays clattering down the hall on the food cart. She wasn’t looking forward to the institutional mush that passed for a meal at The Pines Care Center. Had she really been here five years since George died? She remembered coming home from Grocery shopping to find her husband dead on the living room floor. She immediately called 911 hoping there was a slim chance he would still be alive. But when the medics arrived they told Elise,We’re sorry, Mrs Collins, but your husband is dead.” Elise sank to the...

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The Bell

Submitted to Contest #221

The Bell It was 1818 in London. Carriages, pulled by tired horses, clopped loudly on the cobblestone street. Gas street lamps lighted the misty night, but visibility was poor through dense fog, playing its cottony fingers around the shops and houses. “Guidry-Loo!” Someone shouted. A man emptied his chamber pot out the window. Joshua crossed the road, along with others. He cursed as a fly bit him in the neck. Flies, garbage, and sewage in the street gutters accompanied the autumn night. Joshua was sweating under his wrinkled linen jac...

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