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Hollie Isabella

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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The Lost and Found

Hollie Isabella

It was a blur, my life was a blur, my story was a blur. Occasionally I felt I didn’t have a story, or at least not much to tell. Now, I would say I’m in a healing stage. The stage, somewhat more traumatic than what you are desperately attempting to “heal” from. I have been in this stage for over twenty years, some would say I’m just a mad old woman, with undiagnosed dementia, but really, I’m simply reminiscing about the days when my life was a life not worth anything. I was a parcel, a package which need to be shipped away. An object that wa...

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As Small as a reflection

Hollie Isabella

The stars shone brightly in the moonlit sky, the birds no longer chirping. Isla buried herself into the blankets on her mothers bed. She was too scared to sleep on her own. As the mother stroked her hair, she sang into the darkness. Isla recognised the song as the one her father used to sing when he was sad."Oh the wind whisks me into sorrowAs the ferry takes me far awayOh the bees no longer make honey Because the flowers are dead in my heart"Soon her mothers voice faded away, but Isla was still wide awake. Not in her own bed, or her mother’...

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The Lost Librarian

Hollie Isabella

Submitted to Contest #116

It all starts on a cold winters evening. Cars passing by reflect the moonlit sky. Freya Holly Marissa Nancy Samuels gazes up at the stars, her eyes shimmering with joy. She was about to live the life she always dreamed of. She rushed delightedly up the marble steps, through the gate and into the foyer of her meticulous rented London flat. It always brought her indecisive feelings living here, with the huge windows, and the intricate designs carved into the marble work, it sort of reminded her of the house she lived in as a child. Lonely. S...

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