Indigo Brenner

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

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“Handprints” by Indigo Brenner

Submitted to Contest #190

98 years post-collapse Mason’s mother Delna had named him after history; that’s what she always told him. She had taught him his letters and numbers at home before he was three years old, basic reading and arithmetic by the time he was four, and when he was five, Mason went to school with eight-year-olds. All this was because it was very important to Delna that he learn about pre-collapse history. He never had a bedtime story set after the year 2027—while his friends heard about Nera the Cat and Bumpi’s Trials, Mason heard about the Librari...

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“Anomalous” by Indigo Brenner

Submitted to Contest #152

The red and purple beads clacked curiously as Harper Dia pushed them aside. The whole place was curious, in fact; putting down her briefcase for a moment, Harper made a note on her clipboard to report the psychic’s shop as at least a second-class liminal space, if not first-class. “Hello?” She called. “Agent Dia, Institute for the Research of Irregular Subjects. I’m here to investigate your establishment. We’ve gotten quite a few reports of anomalous entities.” “Hello—” Harper jumped approximately seven inches in the air at the sudden app...

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I'm a homeschooler in Connecticut currently editing my first novel.