Mary Macread

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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“Let's Live A Little” by Mary Macread

Submitted to Contest #40

'Come on Chloe, it's late!' I call out, 'it's going to be dark soon, mum will kill me.''Oh, don't be such a Winnie worry' she shouts back, I can almost hear the eye roll that no doubt accompanies her voice. 'We won't be long.' I follow her down the path, wondering what on earth had gotten into my best friend. She had been acting strangely all day and then, just as were leaving college, she pulled me into the toilets and begins checking the cubicles. 'What on earth are you up to?' I had asked incredulous. I had a lot of maths homework to do, ...

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“Will we meet again?” by Mary Macread

Submitted to Contest #39

It was 29th January 1640 and Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of England, Scotland and Ireland, sat in a window seat at the Louvre Palace and looked up at the stars. A tear slid down her cheek as she thought of her husband, two hundred miles away in England, fighting for his crown. She wondered where he was, if he was looking at the same stars she was.It had been over four years since she had seen him, fleeing her home to return to France. Their fifteen-year marriage had been beset by difficulties, more recently as he battled the Parliamentari...

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