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Jesse-Lee Carden Rowe

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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This time, it's really too late.

Jesse-Lee Carden Rowe

Submitted to Contest #313

*** References domestic violence, trauma, assault, murder and suicide. Reader Discretion advised.*** Are you there, God? It’s me… and this time, it is too late. Of the times I’ve failed you, I know - this is by far the worst. Worse than when I’d secretly wished Lucinda had never fallen pregnant, the week we’d been at each other's throats like wolves, seeking a kill. Ravenous for domination, unwilling to relent to the pressure of a newborn baby and a bank account, diminished. Worse than the time Lucy had used my brand new Ping driver as a pi...

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Life after death

Jesse-Lee Carden Rowe

Submitted to Contest #192

Al Truman was, by all accounts, an ordinary man. A plump but pretty wife, two kids of slightly above-average intelligence, and a neat house in the suburbs were the backdrop of a life that he found mostly pleasant. He had an okay job, an okay car, an okay group of friends and an okay sex life. Most days, he felt okay. Today was not one of those days. It all went to shit when his hairy neighbor, Hector Hargrove, called him outside to lecture him about his garbage can being left out. His god-forsaken garbage can! The spittle flying from hi...

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The choir of chaos

Jesse-Lee Carden Rowe

Submitted to Contest #184

There is a voice that lives inside all of us - a voice we’d rather not have to listen to. It tells us that we aren’t enough. It makes us question the things we love, the people we admire, and the paths we have chosen. For me, that voice started as a whisper. I heard it when I began developing breasts, and noticed other girls at school wearing training bras instead of tank tops under their school shirts. It got louder as I realized those other girls didn’t have to wrestle with the idea of asking their single father to take them bra shopping. ...

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