J Belle

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

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“Her Rebellion ” by J Belle

Submitted to Contest #186

First, there was Analise. War, and Analise. People weren’t supposed to have books, during the Repression of 2076. This is her rebellion. Fingers traced lovingly over crumbling spines. Books upon books, volumes upon volumes, stacked in rickety shelves, on the floor, in the dust, knowledge moldering. She slides another volume onto the shelf. Poetry, this time. She examines the effect. Very pleasing. Analise picks a story from the crowd at random, a lottery to choose her adventure. She collapses into a chair that puffs dust. Red, in the su...

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“They Forgot” by J Belle

Submitted to Contest #149

The chasm had gotten larger since the last night. Selkie stood on the edge of the cliff and surveyed the fresh damage. She estimated that about five more feet of earth had chipped off and fallen into the bottomless trench since her last observation. The whole town was pervaded by a feeling of dread. The apocalyptic trench was literally gaining ground, but ever since the police had quit trying to stop the encroaching cliff, there had been an unspoken agreement among the people of the town not to speak of the danger that was almost in their ow...

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