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Katherine Macy

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2024

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8 Millimeter

Submitted to Contest #236

Basement rock stars. We were on our way. Most seniors spent their free time playing football or rugby, cheerleading, going to a coding club, or playing video games. But us? We made films. Destiny would be the most popular among us if that was an option for anyone near our group. A natural beauty without trying, she was the only one of us who people outside our group gravitated towards. She could have been a model or an actress, but she was much too ambitious for that. She was a camera girl through and through. She had an eye for detail and...

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Running

Submitted to Contest #235

I didn’t know where I was going. Just away. That’s all I knew. And if I ever got out of this one-horse town, I was never coming back. That’s how I ended up in the wrong place. I was just driving. Maybe I would see the entire U.S. before I figured out where I was headed. I just knew that as long as I had an exit every few miles with cup of coffee and a few bucks of gas, I could keep going, and I never had to look back. When I crossed into Tennessee, I thought maybe it was time to take a rest. The lights were bright in Memphis. It wouldn...

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Out of Time

Submitted to Contest #234

I place my hand on my smooth, barely rounded belly. I know you’re swimming in there, a little warrior in a dark ocean of abyss. I know you’re fragile. I wonder if you’ll survive the deep waves that come crashing down on you. None of the others survived. I’m afraid to love you. I fell in love with the others before you so many times, always believing that God in Heaven had His arms around them and that everything would be just fine. I would love them, and then time would run out. And then one day, I was out of time. My husband had decided...

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