I. R. Graham

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2020

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Dawn” by I. R. Graham

Submitted to Contest #74

The count is always the first thing Sella sees when she opens her eyes. A cross hatched trail of ballpoint blue reaches evenly across the featureless white wall - Sella marks each day and each escape attempt together with a single stroke. She wakes always in the same place, at the same time, regardless of where and when she fell to her exhaustion the day before. In this narrow bed in this room where unidentified machines beep a soft lullaby, it is always not quite dawn, that vague grey time just before the sun breaks the horiz...

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“Gran’s Comforting Coffee Cake” by I. R. Graham

Submitted to Contest #71

Meg tasted a teaspoonful of her latest attempt at what was supposed to be her Gran’s Comforting Coffee Cake, and waited. In less than a minute a worm of unease began to twist in her gut, and her heart rate began to climb. “Uh!” Meg took a gulp of the lukewarm peppermint tea she had standing by for just such an outcome, and followed it with a deep, steadying breath. Wrong again! After another few rounds of sip, deep breath, sip, deep breath, she picked up the still-warm cake tin in both hands, and upended it straight into ...

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Author bio

Sheepishly returning to writing after years spent studying for, getting, and working “a real job” - when writing was my one true love all along.