Laurel Quinn

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2020

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Et Tu, Lanna?” by Laurel Quinn

Submitted to Contest #241

She was my best friend. The woman I chose to share most of my deepest, darkest secrets with. The woman I cried with, rejoiced with, and laughed with. And then she stole my husband from right under my nose. Joke’s on her, though. She made her bed with a professional gaslighter, a classically trained covert-narcissist, and master of manipulation, and now she’s gotta lie in it. Our story starts back in 2021, where I met Lanna…at church. A safe place, you’d think. I knew her husband, I helped teach him in Sunday School when I was a teenager, he ...

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“An Unexpected October Blizzard” by Laurel Quinn

Submitted to Contest #77

Located on a small, rural farm exactly forty minutes away from friends, towns, and resources, our surroundings consisted of lush, green cornfields in the summer and empty, barren fields of frozen dirt in the winter. In mid-October, 2002, winter came early, and it brought with it a vengeful blizzard of ice, wind, and bitter cold. The snow had begun falling in fat, beautifully intricate snowflakes on a Friday morning, and by the time we returned from school, delivered by school bus at the end of the longest lane a kid could ever walk, the sno...

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