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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2021
Submitted to Contest #100
Depression was not a state that overcame Norbert’s mind often. Nature had been kind to him and had endowed him with a happy personality. The past few weeks, however, had been tough. November’s melancholy was always difficult to live through, with its yellow fog, grey sky, and dirty rain polluting his mood. Altogether the elements formed a cloud of haze in the sky, usually azure blue. He stared at the computer screen with his marks in mild shock. He had actually failed at something he loved. His computer science mark was his lowest. It below ...
In a junk yard, skipping school, hiding behind iron frames of old cars, they found a free space to bake in the sun. Just like birds bunched up together on a winter morning, sitting on top of a light pole, absorbed the light and warmth, Claire and Adam found themselves inseparable during that winter. They clung to each other, telling each other sad stories of their childhoods. He told her about how lonely it had been in the suburbs as an only child of an absent father. She shared her hatred for the blue-collar part of the town where she was f...
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