Mackenzie Steinman

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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2 Stories

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“The Climb to the Window” by Mackenzie Steinman

Submitted to Contest #38

Dear Diary, Today is the first day of my confinement. April 18, 1943 is officially the worst day ever. Not because of the war, not because of the death caused by the war, but the fact that I have been quarantined. Yes, you heard me, quarantined. A word that can send shivers up anyone’s back. Now, you may ask, why am I quarantined? Well, the answer is quite simple—I have an infamous case of the oh-so-dreadful Scar...

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“The Warriors” by Mackenzie Steinman

Submitted to Contest #37

A young boy crouched silently in the dense shrubbery of the forest. His ears were pricked, ready to hear the long awaited signal. While he listened, he heard many other ordinary sounds of the forest: the distant twitter of the birds who dotted the sky with their aerial excellence; the constant chatter of squirrels as the scavenged for nut along the ground, stuffing them into their cheeks to preserve for the winter; the autumn-colored leaves rustled among the trees and some slowly fluttered to the ground, the wind blowing them this way ...

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Would you believe I'm only eleven?