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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2023
Submitted to Contest #191
content warning: animal death --- “Next!” The checkout queue finally moves up one person. I click my phone screen on and off repeatedly, as if that will slow down the clock. There’s a floral-patterned box and a plush rabbit balanced in my other hand — I’m lucky that it’s mid-March and every seasonal aisle is filled with this stuff. But I promised my eight-year-old sister I’d be home by 3:45, and I’m not sure I’ll make it in time. The plan was to catch the bus after class and go straight home for the funeral, but when I headed out this ...
K.F. Stoker writes speculative fiction and middle-grade fiction. She lives in Canada.
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