Lauren LeCocq

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2025

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“A Suitcase of Necessities” by Lauren LeCocq

Submitted to Contest #286

A short to-do list: Check out of the hotel, swing by the corner store and get another travel-sized body wash, get a taxi, go through airport security, check the email, get on a plane. The good thing about a short to-do list is that you can run it over in your mind until it’s memorized, and you can still forget to pick up the body wash at a corner store and have to buy one at the airport for triple the price. Lenore found her gate with the ease of someone who’s had to navigate airports regularly for the last 10 years. She was always more nerv...

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“Fresh Grass and Hospitality” by Lauren LeCocq

Submitted to Contest #285

The tests had proven fruitful for going back 5-10 years, it was my turn to go and there was an uneasy feeling in my gut. The calculations weren’t adding up. The farther back you go the more the time dilates around you, there’s a period of time you need to wait for the timestream to stabilize before someone can be pulled back. The nature of the equation means that there’s a period of time you can go back and the timestream never stabilizes around you. That time seemed to be around 20 years, and I was going back 25. The head researchers wanted...

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