Jaye Hunter

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2022

Stories (5)

5 Stories

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“Divergence ” by Jaye Hunter

Submitted to Contest #188

Content warning—mental health, drug/alcohol abuse, suicide. My life is perfect.  My life is beautiful, and more than I could ever have known I wanted. My life is long enough to know what happiness means.  My partner and I never marry—we are always better off as friends. We consider it, when we find out she is pregnant at nineteen just after I tur...

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“Peach Soda” by Jaye Hunter

Submitted to Contest #184

New York City  Summer 2035  Taker says freckles are a commodity. That was his answer when I said I didn't like mine—something about a privilege to show how long I've spent in the light, like the everybodies who live on the skylevel roofs or out in the flats instead of us asphalt-and-shade nobodies. I said he should learn what "commodity" means, instead of just reading the word somewhere an...

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“Simulation: CHOICE. ” by Jaye Hunter

Submitted to Contest #183

Content Warning: This work contains direct mentions and depictions of suicidal ideation and detailed suicide planning. Simulation: CHOICE. You are playing as: |________ Mode: [_] Simple .............[X] Average .............[_] Difficult You are equipped: [X] Well Your circumstances are: [X] Stable Your emotions are: [X] Mana...

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“When the Lightning Came ” by Jaye Hunter

Submitted to Contest #169

Content warning: Contains depictions of gender dysphoria. Does NOT contain transphobia/intentional misgendering.  ------------------------------------------------------- I waited in darkness, paused amongst gravestones and decorated plots blanketed by stormclouds. A flash cleft the sky, a blinding display, lightning illuminating the plants and wild bouquets and trinket decorations ...

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“Darkness Hides Your Broken Pieces ” by Jaye Hunter

Submitted to Contest #168

--------------------------------------------------  Trigger Warning: Death, alcohol use   --------------------------------------------------  Summer erases what you used to be, packs bags of long-lost truth  Sunrise kills immortality, matures a wasted youth  For seven years, you haven't stopped running.  At sixteen, y...

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Author bio

— they/them - he/him — —self-taught fiction writer & music lover — POV nerd perpetually ignoring the same 5 WIPs — music channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jayemercury109/videos