Jess Norton

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2022

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“Cupid's Arrow” by Jess Norton

content warning: graphic violence2/14/22 11:59 pm“The rules of the game are simple. Live through the night, and next year you’ll be playing Cupid.” 2/13/22 2 pmEliot nursed his whiskey in an attempt to numb the pain of his broken heart. The old woman next to him droned on about her third divorce. He tried not to look too closely at her snarled teeth. The quaint town he had chosen for him and his wife’s Valentine’s weekend no longer appealed to him. Not since he’d walked in on her, with her legs ...

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“To Hate Bernard Hastings” by Jess Norton

For the life of her, Eleanor could not think of a single thing she hated more than Bernard Hastings.  There had to be something.  Slow walkers, people who chew with their mouth open, or the person who always stands a bit too close to you at the grocery store. A close runner up may be the movie “The Bridge to Terabithia” which she blames for the reason she is such a pessimist and is still single i...

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Writing to escape the reality of having stage 4 breast cancer at 23. UCSB Alum “For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.” ― George Eliot, Middlemarch