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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019
Submitted to Contest #24
They were once the hunters. Now Lazarus slept with his body wrapped around Oreanna as if he were her shield and Oreanna gripped her blade even in her dreams. Now the jungle was a living thing with eyes that never closed and teeth that were always bared.      Five thousand crowns they'd been offered to kill the devil that stalked the Wyrmwood. A hefty sum, so they'd agreed… one last bounty, then they would put it all aside. No more soldiering in petty disputes between lords over borders. No more traipsing around ...
Submitted to Contest #20
The room was too warm and far too loud. Arianette felt as if the press of bodies were closing in on her, threatening to crush and trample her. She was a creature of the forest. She hadn't been raised in halls like this and the cramped pressure of all these people with their prying eyes and booming voices filled her with anxiety. Her heart felt as if it were fluttering too fast in her chest and she felt like it was a struggle just to breathe. Heat rose in her cheeks as stars began to sparkle in her field of vision. She glanced around desperat...
Submitted to Contest #19
In a fickle world, in a town that was forever reinventing itself, the shop was a constant. It had presided over the corner of Abbott Street and Lillian Lane for nearly a century and a half. There had been subtle changes, of course, but they were minimal compared to the upheaval that had taken place in the pastoral town around it. It was not, Kael realized, so pastoral anymore. He marvelled wistfully at the transformation as he drove through the outskirts towards the shop… where Lorelei would be waiting. She always was. Where once there ...
Submitted to Contest #9
I remember the way sunlight splashed across his face when first I saw him, dappling it with shadow. We were in this very forest, amidst these same stands of fir and pine that have swathed Mount Kithairon since the first days. This vale, alas, is a cursed place. AÂ beautiful place, but cursed all the same, for Hera stole my words and sequestered me here as punishment for my lust. Never mind that it was Zeus who forced himself upon me. I was an Oread... treacherous seduction was bred into my immortal blood. Who would believe that I was not...
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