M. Mullins

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2020

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“Glass and Ice” by M. Mullins

Submitted to Contest #97

*0300 hours, day 5 New Year, sector 27, Acirame, P.G.R. (post-Great Revelation)Sophia gloomily surveyed the broken glass on the floor, scattered across her small condo’s wooden bowels by the wild winter wind. It sprouted from the floor like a pointed, deadly carpet. She hauled Felicity from where she slept heavily against her protruding hip bone to her chest. Her hands tugged through her coal-black hair in a nervous dance. This was the third night this month that her neighborhood had been attacked by the Central Agency, a painful remind...

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“The Return” by M. Mullins

Submitted to Contest #96

Esther stands in the corner of her empty guestroom, with no more emotion than a house plant. The sun hangs heavily in the apex of its arduous march, casting light in the stark, white room, dulling the already faded, paisley sheets, tucked and folded like origami on that small cot, as if a soul had never touched it. As if last night never happened. She leans against the doorway for a while, only managing to pull away when the sharp corner digs too deep into her arm and bruises it. She sighs and rubs her throbbing arm; eager to focus on the ...

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I live to write and I write to live. Avid reader, writer, traveler, runner, and caffeine consumer. I hope you have a good day! She/her