Josephine Byrne

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

Stories (4)

4 Stories

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“Meds” by Josephine Byrne

Submitted to Contest #70

Every morning, I wake up to my mother tapping my shoulder and saying in her soft and sweet voice, “Wake up sweetheart, it’s time to eat,” as she whispers “today the day.” She says that every day but I will never do it, I know every doctor and therapist says I have to so I can stay safe, but I just can’t. We both know it’s wrong but life has been so good ever since I stopped. Mom wants to tell people, well she wants me to tell people but it is so much easier to lie. When they ask I just say “of course” and no one can tell the difference. I g...

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“Journey” by Josephine Byrne

Submitted to Contest #36

January 29, 2020Dear… Ummm… Whatever, First of all, let me start off by saying this is NOT a diary! I don't care what the heck you want to call it but it IS NOT a diary. I am only writing this because my therapist told me I should write my feelings and anger into this instead of letting it out on people. Besides, if anyone found out about this or my dumb therapist they would all make fun of me. Even my friends would stop hanging out with me because they don't know about my anger issues and never will know if I have anything to say about it. ...

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“Chore Day” by Josephine Byrne

Submitted to Contest #3

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beeeeeeeeeeeep! “What!” exclaimed Nicky Troy as she slammed her hand down on top of her alarm clock. It was chore day and on chore day everyone wakes up at 7:00 sharp. Today was no different, Nicky hobbled out of bed, put some clothes on and headed to the kitchen to see the chore chart. The chore chart is the chart on the wall that gives everyone their chores, it rotated weekly and this week Nicky had the worst of them all. She had to go shopping with her mom. Her mom could spend all day shopping if she wanted to and with t...

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“The Bedtime war” by Josephine Byrne

Bedtime. The hardest part of the day for June Smith. Her daughter Lily never wants to go to bed but today was a little different... Dinner and dessert were over and Lily knew what was coming next. It was time to go to bed but Lily wanted to go and watch tv and have fun. She wasn't tired! The Smith family was eating dinner but Lily shoveled through her dinner in the first 5 minutes and asked to be excused. Her mom and dad didn't know what to do so they excused her from the dinner table. Lily got up and ran to the bathroom, washed her hands a...

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