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Maddie Rune🥀

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2025

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The Weight of the Chute

Maddie Rune🥀

Submitted to Contest #298

Vesper’s wrists burned under the cuffs, the Execution Tower’s wind cutting through her tattered jumpsuit like a blade. Terminus sprawled below, a tangle of cracked concrete and flickering neon, choked by the Griefmist’s metallic haze. Two years ago, she’d left Rune in the vault, his shouts swallowed by alarms as she fled. The heist was their way out—crack the bank, split the credits, escape Terminus’s hunger. But the walls collapsed, steel and stone burying her brother, and Vesper chose herself, her boots pounding pavement while his voice fa...

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One Second of Clarity

Maddie Rune🥀

Each breath drags in decay, heavy as wet dirt in my lungs. I stumble through the streets, boots scuffing fractured asphalt, surrounded by the faceless. Their heads are smudges—oil smears on a windshield, no eyes, no mouths, just a haze where a person should be. My own reflection’s the same, a distorted smear in the puddles I pass. This is the world now: no one sees until you spill your rot. Confess your filth, they say, and the blur peels back. Truth is the key. Truth is the cage.I’ve never confessed. Not once. Twenty-nine years in this skin...

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Seconds Bleed: Time Ticks Backward, and You're Next

Maddie Rune🥀

Submitted to Contest #297

Elliot Voss held a grudge against digital files—they hid their flaws too well—but the unmarked drive begged him to grab it. He tapped his fingers—3-2-1-pause—a nervous tic from years of counting seconds. He’d spotted it at a flea market on a gloomy Saturday, half-buried under a tarp with warped VHS tapes and a busted Walkman, its scuffed shell buzzing faintly in his grip. The vendor, a haggard man with yellowed teeth, gave a lazy shrug. “Dug it out of a dumpster. Five bucks.” Elliot paid cash and brought it back to his apartment, a dim tangl...

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