Jillee Sexton

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2024

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“The Entropic” by Jillee Sexton

Submitted to Contest #240

You are Dorothy. Because whatever name you were born with has been lost to time and grief and Dorothy is the only name you know from a story about a terrible storm and a home being swept into another world. Only, your world is a room: a tall, narrow scope of a home that you climb and stand at the top looking out the open windows to the ocean of glass beyond. Your job is to make sure the fire is going, and when the winds pick up, when the fire burns out, you return to the bottom and wait. But a firekeeper in a firehouse, a relic of what might...

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“Pillow Talks” by Jillee Sexton

Submitted to Contest #239

Pillow knows all about her problems even before she does. The ones inside her brain and outside her skin. Pillow is there every time someone rolls out of her bed and for the minutes after when she is unsure of what to do with herself, pacing in circles until she feels nothing at all, until even the gnawing need for gratification has left her. Clockwork, Pillow calls it. Her patterns are showing. “The problem is you expect them to meet you right away.” Pillow’s folds mouth words that form like dust clumped in the air, heavy and...

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