Lisa Rose

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2021

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“ At Dawn There Are Poppies” by Lisa Rose

Submitted to Contest #169

This story contains sensitive themes including: mental health, grief, death, and blood. At Dawn There Are Poppies On the last night of August, when the hazy summer heat blurred toward an autumn chill, Emily found a single poppy growing in the woods behind the house.  A spot of sunset in the dark of the forest floor, the red-orange blossom shone like blood among the ragged brown pine needles. Emily dropped the plastic container she had been carrying so quickly that the tender, late-summer blackberries burst like fresh bruises on t...

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“Unholy Night” by Lisa Rose

Submitted to Contest #122

Warning: This story contains violence and gore. I had prepared for the apocalypse. I hadn’t prepared for the apocalypse to arrive on Christmas Eve. Everything seems to accelerate around the holidays, you know? Including, apparently, the destruction of the world as we know it.We all knew it was coming. We had seen it coming for months. Years, really. All those dystopian novels, all those monster comic books, and movies and TV shows, and—really? We knew. But the knowledge of something is different than the seeing of something. The ab...

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Author bio

L.V. Rose (she/they) is an editor, educator, and author. Her work can be found in Shacklebound Horror Drabble Anthology, The Dark Sire, Patchwork Lit, The Other Stories podcast, SJ Center for Literary Arts, and ScaryMommy. She has an MA in English and can be found lurking in the rain of the PNW. Twitter: @WordsRose