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Jane Saunders

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

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You Could Rip Simon To Bits

Submitted to Contest #81

‘Barry, could I ask your opinion on something’. ‘Sure, is it going to be a deep conversation on life, the world, the universe and stuff if so, I’ll get a beer’. ‘Laugh out loud Barry, just want to ask you what you think of my ideas for a dinner date I’m setting up with Simon the new guy I’m seeing that I really like and as you’re a bloke I thought you may have some ideas’. ‘Christ Suzi I’m the least romantic guy I know. Ask Penny or Robert, I’m sure they would be much better at that than me’. ‘Can’t as they ar...

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E2RA3

Submitted to Contest #80

Notice of a public announcement 1 January 2100 on BBC Sky News International @ 21 hundred hours. All citizens are required by law to watch the government public announcement given by The Prime Director. Fellow citizens I want to inform you this evening what we have known and talked about for a number of years has now become reality. Despite all our efforts I have to confirm that global warning in the next thirty years will make it impossible to live above ground. I have in consultation with my fellow leaders aroun...

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Sunday Best

Submitted to Contest #79

I was running late for a coffee date with Sister Juliette and was just about the leave the apartment when there was a knock on the door. A woman I didn’t recognise was standing in the hallway. Hello how can I help, not speaking she handed me a note from Sister Juliette saying this woman is your Mother. The nuns running the orphanage said I was left on the steps in a cardboard box with clean clothes, a teddy bear, and a note. The note said that my mother wasn’t able to keep me and she wanted me to have a life she knew s...

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