Jessica Argyle

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2020

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“The Olympian You Are” by Jessica Argyle

Submitted to Contest #256

By the time I noticed the missing lamp, half the contents of the house were gone. If she hated her life so much, why did she want reminders? But DeAnna was frugal and in the end, it’s the little things that give you away; the habits. The blue blanket was one of the early things to go. She claimed the dog got sick on it. You don’t want to know, she said, so I assumed she trashed it. Then the down pillows were replaced by foam. I made a fuss about it and she actually brought one back after I went on a hunt for it, looking under the bed, in the...

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“By Any Other Name” by Jessica Argyle

Submitted to Contest #185

“So why did you ask me to come to Sawaki,” Rose asked, knowing he had tried to discourage her from coming. But she also knew he was too much of a coward to admit it out loud. “You were warned when you married me, Rose, that this is a man’s world,” he said, making a sweeping gesture that took in their luxurious hut and steaming windows, choked with vines and the impenetrable dark jungle beyond. James Lobb moved his considerable nose back to his work and the pile of charts and ledgers. He was twenty-three years her senior and fi...

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