Logan Cross

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2022

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“Soft Words, Hard Feelings ” by Logan Cross

Submitted to Contest #280

It was the way he sat down that tipped me off.  Harry usually sat down with a flop. With his long limbs and his puppy-like curly blond hair, he landed in even the most proper environments with a full-bodied bounce. Every surface he came in contact with was made of clouds. But not this time.  This time, Harry lowered himself onto my cheap, Ikea couch with a hesitance I’d never seen before, like a kid being sent to the principal’s office. Except the kid in question was thirty-two and sold insurance for a living.  He flinched whe...

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“The Emissary” by Logan Cross

Submitted to Contest #250

SENSTIVE CONTENT: Stalking, Mental Illness It wasn’t her fault.  The girl didn’t mean anything by it, really; she was just the messenger.  “I swear on my life,” the girl chattered to her friends at the table. “She ran off with that newscaster, the tall one. With the teeth. The sexy one.”  She didn’t realize that I was listening, or even who I was at all. She wasn’t even cognizant of the fact that her message was the nail in the coffin, a coffin I once thought had been a lifeboat.  I stood and headed for the hallway the gi...

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Author bio

Logan Cross is a writer and dancer based in Los Angeles, California. She/her. Published in Welcome to Pluto's Zine, Lithium Magazine, Adolescent Content.