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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020
Submitted to Contest #238
The boat scuffed the sandbar, ripples coiling under the moonlight. “This is it?” I asked as I took in the island in front of us. “This is it,” my best friend, Hesperos, confirmed, his golden hair appearing silvery in the darkness. “The cavern is up the mountain pass, we’ll have to walk a bit.” I dropped the anchor into the sapphire ocean as Hesperos jumped the short distance from the small boat to the sand below. I followed him, landing in the shallows of the beach, water reaching my ankles. This island was one of countless...
To anyone else it would’ve looked like a desolate place: the wood rotting, planks up-heaving and long grass creeping up the sides. But to me it was everything. Now, I’m too young to have seen it in its heyday, but the stories told to me painted a clear picture in my head. Standing here, all of the pieces finally fit together: Icarus, a necklace of bottle caps, the boy with money in his socks, the g...
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