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L.O. Baker

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2023

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Rosemary Gracey is Dead and I Know Who Killed Her

L.O. Baker

Submitted to Contest #214

She was dead. Pale and cold and turning blue right in front of me. There was yelling, coming from somewhere I’m not sure of. Behind me, surrounding me. The words could’ve been spit in my face and I wouldn’t have cared, wouldn’t have known. Because she was all I could see. Fingertips that had run through my hair and pinched my cheeks now a drying gray, still and silent. Puckered frozen lips and eyes so blue they looked like they held the ocean in them, glazed over and unseeing. Blonde hair splayed over the floor, perfectly fanned out as th...

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A Source of Comfort

L.O. Baker

Submitted to Contest #190

“Did you know they filtered their water?” “Anna.” “Built the whole system themselves. They even had heated pools. And, to carve the Al-Khazneh-” “Anna-” “-they would start from the top and work their way down. The stairs they used are still there, and there’s even, like, imprinted ladders on the sides. It’s incredible.” “We’re here.” “What? Oh.” My rambling halted along with my feet. I stared at the storefront, the sidewalk broken and wobbly beneath my boots. The brick walls standing tall, if a bit dirtied, but what part of...

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