Marian Reiley

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

Stories (35)

35 Stories

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“Tod Becomes A Villan” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #62

Tod had been working on his Bucky Ball model for days. He had looked up the structure for his science fair project. Tod felt like this was the day he would win the Scholarship Prize. It was his junior year at Openheimer Highschool. Tod had known he loved chemistry. He wanted to go to Harvard and become a world famous Research Scientist. The science fair offered a scholarship to the first place winner. Tod needed it if there was hope of paying for any college education! He wasn't the only one who wanted it, obviously, but the only ...

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“Destiny Foretold ” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #62

The moment my mother, Mara, gave birth to me, the Wisewoman held me and gave me my Proclamation. The matronly female did this with every infant. It's tradition in our tribe. "This child is special;" the Wisewoman said. "When calamity comes from the outside, she will be salvation for our people." My mother wanted to ask what that meant but she was too tired and shocked. So the Wisewoman left for her next appointment. That was fifteen years ago. I'm almost old enough to have a family of my own. Yet I'm still the most unremarkable girl in o...

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“How Survival Happened” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #61

Lisa had been through tough times. The first day of school had been particularly awfull. Lisa only half remembered it. How do you half remember something? It's simple, your brain blacks out part of it because it's way too hard to deal with. Lisa had been a happy, confident five year old. She had no idea she was any different than any other kid her age. She attempted to make friends by starting conversations. At least she tried to. "Hi;" she said. "I'm from Carmel Street." She had watched lots of Sesame Street and knew that to make n...

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“Brainless” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #60

Survival against the most insane thing to ever happen isn't easy. Especially when there's a crazy military experiment gone wrong. What experiment; the government would never hurt their citizens, right? Trust me, they would! Thats exactly what triggered the zombie outbreak. The official story is that the Cold War ended in 1989, but that's a lie! Russia and America were at war in cyberspace for decades. Then in 2050, a coronal mass ejection, a gaint sun burp, fried all of Earth's electronics. Well it took another decade, but the p...

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“The Last of Them” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #60

The year nobody voted. Senator George Adrew Quincy had been chosen by Congress and the Electoral colleges. Then, once he'd been sworn into office and promised a new and better Amrica, he signed the Executive Order eliminating all other branches of the government. Senator Quincy, now President, set to work on his "Better America". First he turned the states into districts. Claiming total unification of America was the best way to make a prosperous and safe nation. Not too bad so far. It was durring the fourth Great Ressecsion that th...

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“Love After The End” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #60

It's hard to meet someone when nealy everyone else is dead. POTUS had provoked North Korea and China one too many times. A total nuclear war had broken out with global consequences. Anyone not in the military had become refugees. People around the world took fled in bunkers and caves. Those in engineered and planned shelters were safe from atomic blasts, had food, adequate medical care and a controlled enviroment. The populations that had no such infastructure in place weren't so lucky. Eventually, fighting on the surface stopped; but th...

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“Capacitor Mountains” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #59

R'Kal Nevrest was a planetary scientist with Gibra's Society for Atmospheric and Planitary Research, or GSAPR. His people had been studying extreme abnormal conditions. Thura had been inhabited by the Gialzik for thousands of years. Durring most of that time, the planet had been a stable place for life. The photons reaching the surface had provided sufficient energy for autotrophic lifeforms to sustain thriving ecosystems. Liquid Dihydrogen Oxide condensed and fell often enough and in the right places that the Gialzik could create agr...

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“The Truth About What Happened” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #58

"Well that does it!" Marissa said to herself. "I blew my last chance!" She had liked working on the Haunted Freighter attraction in Willow Grove, New Jersey. She had actually enjoyed being a scare actor, especially when she did it well. That is until the night of the incident. It had been on an evening, a few weeks ago. Marissa had been working in the brig. Which was a part of the ship that was partitioned from an adjacent walkway by a curtain of metal pipes hung on chains. Marissa loved playing the prisoner!&...

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“The Rite of Succession” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #57

In an alternate reality, existed the Kingdom of Mara. It was more of a Queendom actually; with royal titles and lands being passed down mother to daughter. The current rulling family was the Denihah Clan. They were a fierce group of warrior queens who came to power after the current monarch's 3rd great-grandmother, Queen Dinah the Strong, had united all the fifedoms into a more powerful Kingdom. Since this time, there had been the beautiful prosperous capital city of Helas built around Denihah Castle. The people were prosperous and th...

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“Epic Mansion Crawl” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #55

Manny hated this, he'd been unable to forget that horrible serries of events. "Can you keep a secret?" Manny asked his uncle Vinny. Uncle Vincent 'Vinny' Cordova was his favorite uncle; he was on his mother's side of the family and only fifteen years older than Manny himself. This meant that the two of them were more like friends than normal nephew-uncle pairs."That depends on what the secret is;" Vinny said. "Would you be in trouble or hurt if I dont?" Manny's brow knit together. "I don't think so;" he said. Vinny drew his finger across his...

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“Worst Camping Trip Ever” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #53

It had been too long since the last vacation. Between work, school and PTA meetings, the Mercers had been involved in the same routine for weeks. Now it was the first week of June and Dale Mercer had insisted they needed some time unplugged. That meant getting his wife Ellen, three children and their dog into the family's SUV. Ellen was easy enough to persuade, she had grown up in a rual area where camping was about the only thing to do. The family's golden retriever, Loops, always had too much energy for the suburbs so going out into...

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“Infant in Aisle 23” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #52

Nathan should never have taken the manager job at the Save Right. He hated being the last one in the store. It was always kind of creepy but the blizzard tonight made things much worse. Snow had been in the forecast but no one had expected this much. What had started as a light flurry was now whiteout conditions. Nathan had sent all the shoppers and employees home about an hour ago. He was required to stay, count up all the money in the safe, do a walk through and lock all the doors. It wouldn't have been so bad except the blizzard h...

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“Friends Over Lightyears” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #51

Tessa loved to look at the stars. Ever since she was a small child, she had viewed them with awe. Tonight was no exception as she cast her eyes up towards astronomical wonders. She had grown up watching Dr. Who, Star Trek and many other cinimatic sci-fi productions. Durring her family's frequent trips to the library, Tessa managed to get ahold of various astronomy books. It was in these books she learned about stars, black holes, galaxies and so much more. Tessa began to wonder if there was life out there in the great big universe she had...

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“Two Wrongs for Money” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #51

I knew I shouldn't have done it; Lindsay thought. Why did I?! It had been three years but her actions finally caught up with Lindsay. "We have the video footage of you;" Detective Rice stated. "You were there at that bank a week before the robbery! You're just as guilty as Frankie Romano!" Lindsay knew the surveillance video was damning. 'Fired Up' Frankie was the head of the Romano syndicate. She shouldn't have crossed paths with him but it had been unavoidable. Maybe if she talked first, she could get some sort of protection. "Fine;"...

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“Spirit Board In Summer” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #50

"You gotta do it!" Darik said. "If you don't I'll tell everyone you're a weenie!" Billy, not at all interested in scary things, had been over to visit his friend Darik. The pair had been friends since kindergarten. Now they were sixth graders; almost teens! While there was no one else Billy would like to hang out with on a lazy June day, he hated when Darik made him do things. He wasn't going to chicken out though, not in their secret tree house. They had built it together in Darik's backyard, it was where they did all the stuff they didn'...

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Author bio

I grew up writing short stories. Reedsy is the first place I've ever published. My muses are Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, and Dianna Wynn Jones. I just found out about the fee to enter the contest. I am going to go away from the prompts on Reedsy but feel free to enjoy any content I've published so far. Each piece I write, I try to take my audience for a thrilling ride through my plots. Planning to start a WordPress blog. I will post a link in my bio stay tuned. Also I was a Biology Major in college not an English Major. So if my writing isn't perfect or enjoyable that may have sonething to do with it!