Hollie Newton Wilkes

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2024

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“A Day to Herself ” by Hollie Newton Wilkes

Submitted to Contest #245

She would take a day off. For truly, when was the last time that she’d had a break? She couldn’t think of a single afternoon, a few minutes even, when she hadn’t been at work. ‘The Golden Girl’, shining bright. Born and raised into stardom. Watched. Adored. Famous the Earth over. She was exhausted by it. Her time - her life, it seemed - belonged to others. And now she wanted some for herself. Just 24 hours. Without the gaze of the world upon her. “Perhaps it might do them good to miss me for once?” she thought. For hadn’t they...

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“Lo Svedese” by Hollie Newton Wilkes

Submitted to Contest #234

He was there again.It had snowed the night before. A ‘shooting snow’. That took farm workers from their beds to light torches amongst the vines, and hunters from their duvets early, in search of the fresh tracks of warm bodies looking for berries in the early morning light. And now the hunters were in, propping up the bar and testing her reserves of cherry wine and her patience with their bellowed “saluti”s and worn tales of Mario Pepe, the fabled wild boar the size of a Fiat, “eyes like the hottest place in hell,” and Lorenzo’s brush with d...

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