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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021
Submitted to Contest #88
You could say he was an outsider, because he was all the wrong shape. The same shape, but different none-the-less. For starters, he was bigger than all the others, he ate more than them, was expected to live longer than them and had a wild sleeping pattern - making it difficult to meet the demands of their nocturnal raids every second evening. He would not give up even though he was still a lowly squire awaiting his indu...
Submitted to Contest #77
I had had enough, I thought when I looked out of the rounded window of the small white glider. At the time, it was flying at a rather nerve-wracking angle, as one of the wings tilted towards the plummet of mossy ground and the other wing was tilted towards white plumes of twirling clouds. When the pilot pulled straight again, I finally let out a little more air and a lot more ease as my shoulders...
The bad times were over and I was feeling good again. All winter and Spring I had been ill. Very ill, they said, but eventually I was allowed to leave the clinic and gradually I began to regain some of my strength. My husband was relieved to see me more like my old self and suggested, now that I was stronger, that a change would do me good. Somewhere in the sun, he said, and I began to plan my summ...
Submitted to Contest #75
The dust travelled high up to the heavens and gusted tremendously in great turbine pools of acrid beige particles. Ground so dry, sweat drops would make the sand mites sing at the surface. The sun was almost calling it a day, as it leant on the tip of the mountain-scape. The hilly monolithic view as a background, made way for the sandy foreground, where no life seemed to teem but a common black crow and three black silho...
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