Lindsay Southworth

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2024

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“You can never go home again” by Lindsay Southworth

Submitted to Contest #247

April 23, 3022Day 108My 35th birthday and almost certainly my last. My heart thuds in my chest as I reach the final crest of the hill and look out at the jungle below me and the ocean beyond that. I never imagined I would be celebrating my final birthday so young and so alone. I take a deep breath and feel the salty, humid air fill my broken body. And then I let out a thundering cry, full of grief and despair that no one will ever hear. January 25, 3022Day 20As far as I know, I am the only human living on this entire massive blue-and-gr...

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“Dry January” by Lindsay Southworth

Submitted to Contest #233

I can hardly bring myself to open my eyes upon waking. The world is already spinning behind my closed lids and I know I’ll feel even worse when I see the destruction my New Year’s Eve celebration has wrought upon my home. Don’t get me wrong, last night was glorious. I felt on top of the world, indestructible. I had fun, I laughed, you could even say I was the life of the party. But is it worth how drained, how depleted, how guilty I will inevitably feel for the first few days of this new year? At my age, shouldn’t I know better? I blink my...

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