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Jessica Miller

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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Family Ties

Submitted to Contest #81

What am I doing here? he couldn’t help but think as he was waiting at the restaurant for Elizabeth to show up. He could not even believe she had called earlier in the week and asked to meet to discuss some things. I mean, it has been 5 years since she left, and I have not heard from her at all since then. I know we both made mistakes in our marriage, but I was willing to try and make things work. She wasn’t and gave up, took her 3 children that I had raised for the ten years we were together and even moved on with that stupid Casey gu...

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Memories

Submitted to Contest #80

Last year when my family got together for the holidays my great-grandmother sat at the table like she always did and just watched all of us. She never really says much to anyone, but I could tell when she began to get irritated at some of the things and conversations going on around her. When my cousins started complaining about how they did not get the exact new model of phone they wanted for Christmas she just shook her head, sighed and stared off into the distance. One of my cousins saw her shake her head at them and asked why she did it....

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Dust and Soot

Submitted to Contest #80

I did not know what was going on when right before 9:00 in the morning our entire school building shook like we were having an earthquake. We heard a loud crashing noise and things fell off our tables around us. Our teacher told us to stay at our desks and continue working on our classwork and she would go find out what was going on. When she returned a few moments later we could all tell something was wrong because it was clear she had been crying and was trying not to scare us. She turned on the T.V. that was in the corner of the classroom...

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Blood may be thicker, but water is better for you.

Submitted to Contest #79

Shocked, that was the feeling overloading my senses as I had looked at the message I had received on Myspace. It was 2009, I was 18 years old and sitting in the Arc (academic resource center) at my college in between classes. My entire life I have been told how my biological father wants nothing to do with me, I had never even met him because he left my mother while she was pregnant. I had learned to be ok knowing he did not want to be in my life even though I never really understood it. How can you not want your child? It makes no sense to ...

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