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J.D. Graves

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2025

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A Sharpling's Gift

J.D. Graves

Submitted to Contest #319

The scent of fear was a bitter perfume on the night wind, a familiar tang that prickled Eldrin’s nostrils. Below him, nestled in the valley like a cluster of panicked fireflies, lay the village of Verloren. Torches flickered, casting dancing shadows that exaggerated the villagers’ every frantic movement. He heard the distant clang of an alarm bell, a tinny, desperate sound that echoed his own hollow heart. Another hunt. Another night where the very air thrummed with the desperate intent to end his existence.Eldrin was no stranger to fear. It...

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Underneath

J.D. Graves

The children were being noisy again. Minstrel could hear their excitement without glancing up from her comfy perch on the windowsill. She could tell from the shape and color of the fallen leaves that it was only a matter of time before the two little ones would be outside going door to door in the dark of night, requesting sweets with their big smiles and silly costumes. Before this year, the youngest of her charges wasn't even able to walk on her own. Now she would be trick-or-treating decked out in all orange and as round as the strange sm...

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Unraveling

J.D. Graves

Submitted to Contest #317

Guin stared at the chipped porcelain mug in her hands, the lukewarm tea doing little to settle the tremor that had become a constant companion. It had been six months since the… shifts started. One moment, she was microwaving leftover chow mein, the next, the air shimmered, the kitchen warped, and she found herself standing in the same spot, but the calendar on the wall read 1998.At first, disbelief warred with panic. But the yellowing floral wallpaper, the chunky dial-up modem humming on the desk, the Spice Girls blasting from a nearby radi...

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Nifty Fifty

J.D. Graves

Submitted to Contest #315

Trigger warning: Death mentioned in story. I was sitting alone in a booth at Denny’s pushing spaghetti around when a lovely woman with tousled lavender hair slid back into the seat across from me. Her hair was wild, like an albino lion’s mane, and I always yearned to reach out and tame it.“I’m back,” Lisette said. There was a satisfied smile on her face like a child who’d just won an argument with an adult. She looked at me in a way I always thought impossible. As soon as her eyes fell on me, they knew everything, yet as soon as she smiled, ...

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Half Passed Midnight

J.D. Graves

Submitted to Contest #315

Trigger warning: Violence and death are mentioned/depicted below. I wish I could meet you for the first time again.You wandered into my lair at half passed midnight with quiet purpose. So ugly and human under a black veil. The village condemned you for witchcraft, adorned you in gaudy mourning clothes, and sent you to me as a sacrifice.Witchcraft.Sacrifice.These words only existed in human tongues. After all you put into helping them rebuild. They had the audacity to pretend they feared your magic. Called it evil. Then shoved you up here as ...

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