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Juno Y.

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2021

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I Wish

Submitted to Contest #101

Author's Note: All credit for the songs goes to Stephen Sondheim. I suggest listening to the songs listed to get a better experience. All the people listed are real, though the story may not be. Song: Prologue: Into The Woods “You’re fired.” Her boss’ words still rang in her ears, even hours after her dismissal. Kim Crosby still appeared as her confident self, but inside, she was a nervous wreck. Mere minutes before the show was about to start, and she was close to breaking down.  It seemed that all the pressure in the world was on her ...

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Vola

Submitted to Contest #97

Long ago, if one looked at the sky from this place, they might be able to see a swath of glittering stars. Now, if one looks at the sky, all they see is hollow darkness. Maybe it’s better in the country, where the tendrils of pollution don’t quite reach, but Vola lived in the city, in a cramped apartment. The night sky blanketed the tall buildings, a sharp contrast to the flashing lights of the city below. Vola scanned the sky, breathing out a gentle sigh against the glass of the window, sorrow for the lost luminescence soaking into her bone...

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Gilded Cage

Submitted to Contest #95

Penelope pauses at the fork in the passageway, torch in hand. It’s almost funny, the way the tunnels seem to challenge her at every turn. To the right is the nursery, built for her family when they were all children. To the left is the way out, the way she’s taken nearly every day for meetings of the Rebellion.  Yes. A rebellion. The word still gives her tingles of excitement as she thinks of following in the footsteps of all the great heroes, like Theseus and Perseus. Everything has been set up: A tyrant on the throne, civil unrest, e...

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Gudrun Himmler's Secret Tales of the Axis

Submitted to Contest #94

Sunday, August 8, 1943It’s my fourteenth birthday, and Father forgot. Again. He doesn’t care about me at all! He’s off with Mr. Hitler again, chatting about some Nazi government stuff, leaving me working alone on my shift as a nurse working in Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital. I tend to our wounded soldiers streaming in from battle. I was especially picked for this job so I can listen to what happened in the warfront and report back to Father, since girls are trusted more by the soldiers. I’m also supposed to report whenever the soldiers are dis...

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