Hylas Marner

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

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“Bello and the Sprite” by Hylas Marner

Submitted to Contest #86

At the base of the tallest, most gnarly tree of the prehistoric glen, a wet rat scurried to a halt. Out of its mouth hung a yellowing scroll nearly in tatters. The rat paused, sniffed, then scratched four times on the bulbous trunk of the gargantuan bristlecone. "I know you're up there, my liege! I can smell you! Take heart: today's tidings from the hamlet are hopeful, not ominous!" Lugubriously, I sighed. What difference now could any tidings make? Just days before, the emperor announced his intent to level this glen. My creatures faced...

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“Under the snowy pretenses of our world” by Hylas Marner

Submitted to Contest #77

Just across the mountainous horizon, the summer Sun shone its dying beams. Here and there, across the plain, sparkles like the dust in a lonely bookstore leapt out through the light. It was the end of the summer, and it was beginning to snow. A mere centimeter from the window pane, Bernie gazed outside studying each twirl of every snowflake within eyes’ reach. The eyes focused and defocused, traced and retraced, for seconds and dekaseconds and hectoseconds… “Hey Bernie.” A beautiful creation had entered the antechamber. Their tall, lean...

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