K. L.

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021

Stories (4)

4 Stories

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“I Have Seen It Before” by K. L.

Submitted to Contest #103

I have seen this tree before. Somewhere, though exactly where I could not say. It looks familiar. Yes, indeed, it looks very familiar. The lone tree in the middle of nowhere. Maybe that was where I had seen it, Nowhere. Nowhere is a funny place, people dump all their forgotten places at Nowhere. My eyes squint at the leaves, bright green under the clear blue sky and cotton clouds. In Nowhere, I recall a little mark carved in the bark of the tree. There it is, just as I remember. A letter “S”.My shirt is starting to dampen. I should get ...

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“a King, a Queen, and a court fool ” by K. L.

Submitted to Contest #87

Beware readers, for bewitched you shall be when you hear the storiesStories of a trickster god centuries agoStories that fascinate still the starry eyes of little onesO’ the tales you’ll hear of his adventuresOf how he used to trick a King into giving him bags of goldOf how he used his wit to trade a Queen’s mirror for bags of grassOf how he roamed through villages and towns and kingdomsSpreading his trickery with a mouth of honeyOf how he stood atop a roof with the face of a fox. But alas, as they say: what is great shall never lastThey sai...

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“Her” by K. L.

Submitted to Contest #86

Her. He couldn’t remember much about her. What he could remember was…A daisy. He gave her a daisy that day. She was crying on the kindergarten swing, her father had forgotten to pick her up again. Too busy, he recalls. Her face were wet with tears by the time she noticed him handing her a daisy. Eyes wide staring at the embarrassed boy. Delicate hands received the delicate offer of friendship. She smiled at him and he remembers it being the warmest glow he had ever seen. Far brighter than the ripened sun behind them.Little does he know.A sun...

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“The Budding Daffodil” by K. L.

Submitted to Contest #84

“...Three people found dead in the subway station. According to witnesses and surveillance cameras, the three men suddenly collapsed on the platform. Detailed autopsies have shown that these men were perfectly healthy and showed no signs of previous health issues…” “…somehow people just drop dead without any warnings or symptoms. Car accidents, power outages, buses crash into buildings happen on a daily basis now. People are told to remain inside their homes…”“…people are just dying out of nowhere. What now? Planes will drop from the sk...

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