Leah D

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

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“Refuge” by Leah D

Submitted to Contest #279

But music and singingHave been my refuge,And music and singingShall be my light.-Frank Ticheli; Earth SongACT 1 SCENE 1Jess woke to the sound of silence. The hum of it pressed against her ears. Rolling over on the naked mattress, she sat crouched in a darkness black as pitch, eyes staring forward like a blind man. Her hands patted the dirty floor in search of the matches and the brass candelabra that held her wax candle, which would be next to the mattress, on the floor, where she always kept them. Once recovered, she struck ...

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