Jessica Stone

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“The Game” by Jessica Stone

Submitted to Contest #188

tw- violence, reference to suicide - I found it on the dark web. That should have been my first indication that there would be a catch. Like a lot of similarly minded weirdos I have a drab sense of curiosity and was avoiding real feelings in my corporeal life by perusing the extreme oddities of others. Sounds healthy, right? I was submerged in some bizarre auction, where the auctioneer was called “COMPUTER” and those participating in the bidding had screen names made of only numbers. My user was called “Jamesy6...

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“The Ugly People's Cat Club” by Jessica Stone

Submitted to Contest #187

Every day started the same. Before the club, that is. This rainy morning started the same as always: I looked in the mirror with my eyes squinted. The squinting helped me not to see it. I had trained my eyes only to look at my forehead, or at my lips and chin... I just couldn’t look... I could NOT look at... it. My computer is set up in one corner of my studio apartment. Sometimes to strangers in chat rooms I would refer to it as my: “home office”. It was a desk with a fold-out partition ...

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Author bio

Full time Dork. Sometimes a Flight Attendant. Always in love with everything... to a fault.