Maddie Coindreau

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Between Doors, Mirrors, and Memories” by Maddie Coindreau

Submitted to Contest #95

I’m standing in front of two doors. The one on the left is a fairly light shade of blue, made completely out of wood. Even though the color is unnatural, the door doesn’t look like it was painted over. For some reason, it looks like the original wood was blue, as if taken from a tree from a fictitious world where trees can be blue and grass purple. It has a shiny golden doorknob on the left. The second door is coral pink, and a complete mess. It looks as if it got assigned the job of being a door quite recently, but since it’s never been a...

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“Two Typical Troublemakers” by Maddie Coindreau

Submitted to Contest #94

“Did you understand?” “No” I sighed in frustration. “It’s really not that hard. Look: We get in through the only window they never lock, the one next to the garden. The children will already be sleeping, so the only person we’ll have to avoid will be the nanny. There really isn’t a better day to do it. Today the parents won’t be home. This’ll be a piece of cake.” Nicolai looked at me with a blank expression. “What part of this don’t you understand?!” I half yelled. “No, I do get the logistics of it.” “Then?” I was glaring at him ...

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“A Guardian on the Job” by Maddie Coindreau

Submitted to Contest #47

As you laid motionlessly on the feet of the bed, two huge green eyes were staring right at you, so close they almost rubbed against you. Their owner smiled to reveal a missing tooth, and you found that that made her look even cuter. “Please,” you heard her say in a whisper for the fourth time that day. “I won’t tell anyone, I promise.” Josie Mclean was not someone you could refuse to easily. As far as you knew, she was the sweetest girl out there, and nothing would ever change that. “Say something,” she said, smiling. “Anything.” As ...

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Author bio

Hi! I'm a high school student who was obsessed with reading from first grade to seventh (I still read occasionally, but more casually). I started writing when I was in fifth grade. I love writing, but sometimes it's hard to find the time to do it between my millions of hobbies and my homework. Anyways, I hope you like my stories! I'm trying to write more often, I swear.