Mackenzie Blair

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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“Four Years” by Mackenzie Blair

Submitted to Contest #46

Life is funny. One moment you’re trying to go to sleep, the next you have a knife clutched in your right hand aimed at your neck. You’re not sure why you picked up the knife. Was it a dream? A sudden stroke of inspiration? Either way, the adrenaline pumping through your limbs brings sharp focus to the fact that you were about to die… Bryn presses her palms to her eyes. That day is a blur right up until 10:56 p.m. when she glanced up at the red clock above her bed, the knife still trembling in her hand. When she pulls her hands away from her ...

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“Life or Death” by Mackenzie Blair

Submitted to Contest #44

The fog machine blows directly into my face, choking the last bit of oxygen out of my lungs. The roar of the crowd blends with the whirring fan as I step through a curtain of mist, taking my first breath of non-recycled air in over a week. It isn’t as sweet as I remember. There aren’t any real trees in the City, at least none that I’ve seen through the tiny window in the cell where I was kept, but at this point, anything is better than the chemicals they pump into their buildings.By ‘they’, I mean the Producers. They run the City like a soci...

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