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Maddie Lee

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

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Without you.

CW: Death“It’s okay. I understand,” I whisper. “You can leave. They all do.”Kayleigh goes silent on the other end of the phone. All I hear is the shaking of the bus, the stupid, rowdy kids in the front, and the white noise in the background. All meant nothing to me. Kayleigh’s quiet penetrates the deepest parts of my heart and my soul.“Vienna, I don’t want to break up with you—” she starts again.“It’s fine, Kay, I understand,” I forced out, my voice cracking. “You don’t have to apologize to me. I’m used to it.”Silence for another few mo...

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Time

Time is merely a concept. It’s just something humankind made up so that we don’t lose ourselves. Something we use to try to assess the endless length of our world and this universe. Something we believe in and measure our minutes, our days, our lives by. The hours, days, weeks, months, that I spent working up to this point don’t actually mean much in the grand scheme of things. It all cost me so much, and I just have to ignore it. You see, I’m an author. I write for a well-known newspaper called The Early Bird Journal, or the EBJ. It’s a w...

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a thousand wishes

“Penny?”I open my eyes slowly against the agonizing pain at the sound of my nickname.Only two people have permission to call me that. But there's absolutely no way it's her...right?Her dark brown eyes stare back at me. Her shy smile makes something inside me fizz with joy. The last time I saw her was in the last year of high school—I can’t believe she’s here, after all this time. And she’s seeing me like this?“J-Josie?” I croak, attempting to stand up. Everything is blurry, and I have a headache, but someone’s face comes into view.I fall bac...

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