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Kyaris Newton

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021

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White Sky

The sun setting on the horizon set a pretty purple glow across Avery’s sleeping neighborhood. He sat in his treehouse as he watched Mrs. Will, who lived in the house across his, noisily mowed her lawn. He was surprised that the other neighbors didn’t wake up to bothersome noise. Staying up in the treehouse at dawn always made Avery’s chest clench painfully, but it was never enough to stop him from climbing up the rickety wooden ladder every morning. The cold morning gales prickled his skin as he held onto a branch to steady himself, the s...

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Blankets and Books

Submitted to Contest #91

They had been in the library for nearly four hours, but Willow couldn’t leave since Avery wouldn’t budge from his position on the bean bag. It didn’t seem like much of a hindrance to her plans for escape, except for the fact that his head was keeping her thighs glued to the cushiony seat.What was supposed to be a brief excursion to the library ended up being a social engagement that lasted for quite some time. Willow had never been one for reading, but the series Avery introduced to her sucked her in deep and as fatally as quicksand. Joining...

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Absent

Submitted to Contest #89

Augustus 31, Year 358 The ceremonial trumpets blared the first notes of a familiar tune. From her bedroom window, Princess Maeve Saoirse watched a parade of creatures from the fairy and elf kingdoms make their way into the palace halls. This wasn’t the first time she saw such a crowd; there was one every fifty years to mark the crowning of a new Fairy Queen. She sighed audibly at the thought of what was looming beyond the horizon. “What’s wrong, Princess?” Vaska questioned as she ran a brush through the strands of Maeve’s long lilac hai...

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Promise

Submitted to Contest #85

The first time John fell in love, it was in an abandoned building next to the popular pizzeria. For millennia, the town of Ambe has been his favorite getaway town. It was a miniature settlement with a modest population varying from the original fifty inhabitants to the current three hundred. However, thanks to his everlasting life, he was only allowed to venture to his teeny utopia every hundred years. It’s been a century and Ambe has turned from a rickety village made of wooden houses into a town made of stout ceramic b...

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