J. Singleton

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2022

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“YET ANOTHER CHRISTMAS STORY” by J. Singleton

Submitted to Contest #178

(With apologies to sensitive readers: COVID referred to in a humorous manner. Derisive comment regarding overeating.)In New York, they said that introverts had been practicing all of their lives for the lockdown. How had they guessed? It was as if they knew her personally.In these recent times, for Lynette, even Christmas meant solitude; for two years out of necessity; now, maybe out of habit. So, no cacophony of loud gift bags coughing red tissue paper set clustered on the floor, holding presents for friends. No sparkly holiday cards, past ...

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“CASSANDRA IN PARADISE” by J. Singleton

Submitted to Contest #177

Somehow, she’d always known that the world she’d want to live in would not exist until a thousand years after her death; the life she’d want to live would not be possible until ten centuries after hers had ceased. And the man she could love would not be born until she’d been dead a millennium.Now her upper eyelids stuck to the lower rims as though drapes unopened since forever that came to be glued to dusty, sticky window sills. Someone sat beside her. She could feel a presence. When she finally freed her lids with all of the force that her ...

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