Madelyn Zimmer

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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“Time” by Madelyn Zimmer

Submitted to Contest #65

28 days. 673 hours. 40320 minutes. It had become a subconscious process, the counting. The constant tick tock in his head, beating louder than his own heartbeat, filling his head with terror. He had always counted, keeping track of the time he was able to walk, talk, and think like before that horrifying night. Now all there was was that internal clock, counting down his days of borrowed freedom before the inevitable darkness would consume him again. He had left that night, running deep into the woods, his left leg burning with such a fi...

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“The Locket” by Madelyn Zimmer

Submitted to Contest #35

The woman’s pace quickened as the rain began to fall. It fell from the grey stained sky in beads, catching the dim lights of the streets as it poured. She scowled and pulled her crimson hood further over her head, casting her face in shadow. The snow had begun to melt, pooling in miniature lakes at her feet. The woman had always hated this part of spring, the rushing water filling the rivers, flooding the roads and paths and compromising the basements of a few unlucky homes, namely hers.She stopped to check her phone under the overhang of a ...

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