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Jennifer Burrows

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2021

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THE DEATH OF A TEACHER

Submitted to Contest #95

This year began as the best year of my life.  Now, at the end of this long, hard, pandemic year – one of the hardest ever for every teacher – my classroom phone rang, as it sometimes does during class, but instead of ‘please dismiss so and so” the principal’s secretary was on the other end. It was three-quarters of the way through fourth period.  “Is everything okay?” I coughed.  “Hon, ask your neighbor teacher to come watch your students and come on. The principal wants to see you.” That wasn’t a yes or a no. My students star...

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NEVER FORGIVE

Submitted to Contest #95

“Share? What do they mean, share? Why would they think you’re going to share me?” I hissed, turning every ounce of fury I had on his six feet of sexy. Another arrow zinged through the air and smacked into the door frame inches below the first.  Zyaire pressed my head down, but I refused to bend. I’d rather die than be taken.  “What are you doing? Is that your squad out there? Are those your –“ I couldn’t find a better word so I hissed out “-friends.” I wanted to scrape his eyeballs out, but his grip pressing down on me was almost m...

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BURNT BUTTERFLIES

Submitted to Contest #92

Sunlight’s fingers were determined to infiltrate my closed eyelids. I covered my eyes with my arm, but I couldn’t regain the sleep I desperately wanted or the escape I needed from another day of battling against barren trees and restocking the storeroom. Though, and I could not deny my heart this truth, I thoroughly looked forward to the potential of the date I’d made with Zyaire. The scorching sun already filled my room with the heat of the day, and I’d blame it for driving me from the comfort of my bed, when, if I was being true to myself,...

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Unlikely Stranger

Submitted to Contest #90

The sun warped off the land in waves of heat, sending the arms of a dry, dead tree shimmering in the distance. Some days were cooler, but today was a close cousin to hades.   Through scalding heavy downpours and heat spells, we climbed from the south in search of a place cool enough to exist long term. It was Dad’s idea to hide in the shade of Terrible Mountain. We lived because of him. Not much else survived.   A cockroach skittered across my boot. Nothing killed them, not even the end of the world. I couldn’t squish him...

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