Lauren B

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2021

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Let Me Be Lost” by Lauren B

Submitted to Contest #184

TW: Death and firearms. James sometimes heard ghosts in the wind. Ancient memories whispered past his ear when he was deep in thought. Sometimes real things too. A bird call would sound oddly human-like. A tree, swaying and creaking with age, sounded like a baby cry. Loneliness never left; it circled and came back, on and on through the years. When James heard shouting back at the house one day,...

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“In Sickness” by Lauren B

Submitted to Contest #155

Content warning: profanity and terminal illness. I was really hoping that my wife would die. Not at first. When she was first diagnosed, I just wanted a speedy recovery. Then I could continue with my plan to leave her. Like the cancer in Debbie’s breast, these feelings had been eating away at me for years. Twenty-one years into our marriage, Debbie had grown old, obviously...

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“Save the Stain!” by Lauren B

Submitted to Contest #152

A hundred years ago, Big Timber was a busy logging town. Then a pest moved in, the forest died, and the people moved out. I’m one of three employees at the Big Timber Tribune and I can probably name every member of our subscriber list. Most of the stories I cover are like this one: boring. It’s either human interest or something about our local economy, which has been on life support for over a decade. Lately t...

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