Madison Rulapaugh

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019

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“The View From the Top” by Madison Rulapaugh

Submitted to Contest #15

For someone who's never really seen the appeal of rock climbing, Archie was surprised to find himself here. Maybe it was that ever present sense of self-preservation, or that twinge of vertigo from being too high, but he'd never liked the idea of dangling hundreds of feet in the air by a rope. You're completely vulnerable to the elements, dependent on the strength of the rope, and at the mercy of whoever happens to be above you at the time. He cringed at the thought of falling hundreds of feet to his death, and his foot slipped off the fake ...

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“Just Paranoia” by Madison Rulapaugh

Submitted to Contest #13

I walked down the abandoned street. The trees stood like skeletal sentries all around, their fallen leaves whispering and ruffling in the winds that seemed to chill me to my bones. The last light was falling away, leaving me alone at the mercy of the silver veiled moon that sneered at me from above, casting shadows of ghosts in the corners of my eyes.I walked on, wrapping my arms tightly around myself, trying to still the tremors that had less to do with the cold, and more to do with my overactive imagination. I saw a shadow in a path of rus...

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