Justine Buhl

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2021

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3 Stories

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“The Demon in My Head” by Justine Buhl

Submitted to Contest #200

I was born with a demon in my head. He is not the crazy type, just an old regular demon with bad jokes and a thirst for blood. My blood. We did not talk much, during those first years: he was not interested in me, and I was too young to understand that he only lived in my head. It all changed around my sixth birthday when I made my first deal with my demon. It was a stupid thing really, but I had lost this small knight toy and I desperately wanted it back, enough to trade an hour of my life for it. Asmodeus — this is what I call him now — t...

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“WHAT ALIVE TASTES LIKE” by Justine Buhl

Submitted to Contest #100

A ghost and a zombie were staring at each other.  It was hard to tell which one of them was more dead. The zombie had a greenish skin that matched perfectly her pink destroyed clothes. Some said she had once been this famous singer that no one ever remembers. Nobody listened to her songs anymore. She was really dead and yet, she could talk and walk. Sitting on one of the tombstones in the graveyard, anyone would have thought she was a real person in disguised. An old one, with hair falling from her round skull and not enough teeth in...

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“Colorless Harlquin” by Justine Buhl

Submitted to Contest #99

It would be so easy to fall asleep in this silent world and forget all the terrible events that happened there. Sleep had been ready to take Harlequin for several hours, but the little boy could not yet afford to dive into the world of his imagination. As soon as the sun came up, he could go to bed. "Don't fall asleep, Harl," Florise murmured. Even in the darkness, he could make out her silhouette clinging to the branch just below his. The position was cozy, with a thick layer of moss covering the bark and the knots of the wood that perf...

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Author bio

Parisian Oscar Wilde fan who should really be studying right now.