Heather W

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

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“Lost and Found” by Heather W

Submitted to Contest #77

I stand on the shore, staring down at the thick shroud of snow smothering my feet. I can't spend another day alone. Though I know Gregory wouldn't want me to give up, I have no choice. I have spent two years, seven hundred and thirty interminable days, without the love of my life, and the thought of even one more moment is agonizing. They told me that he would have barely felt a thing once the river's brutally gray waters closed over his head and the fractured ice hid him from my view. I'll soon know if they were right. I take a slow deep br...

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“Haven't Changed a Bit” by Heather W

Submitted to Contest #61

I stand in my front hall and inspect myself in the mirror. New little black dress, the first dress I've bought in decades since I'm a jeans-and-sweatshirt type? Check. New hair cut, so I could blow-dry my 'always in a ponytail' strands into something sleek and elegant that flows over my shoulders? Check. New dye job, to hide the grays and return me to my teenaged brunette? Check. New me? Sadly, no check. I'm all cleaned up on the outside, but inside? I haven't changed at all since high school. I still live in the house my grandmother lived i...

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