Mattie Coal

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2020

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“A Necromancer's Goodbye” by Mattie Coal

Submitted to Contest #75

Cassidie had always hated Thursdays. A few lucky teenagers spent their weeknights pouring over homework or watching YouTube videos. Most others were out hunting Unnaturals, experimenting in labs with Unnatural compounds, or researching them in hopes of becoming a scientist. Everyone was involved with Unnaturals somehow. Cassidie didn't get that luxury. Instead, she got to spend every night sitting at the reception desk of Delilah's Funeral Home and Casket Emporium. Cassidie had no idea why it was called Delilah's. The owner, her father, ce...

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“And the World was Silent” by Mattie Coal

Submitted to Contest #74

There was very little in the world so beautiful as nature. It was rough and cold, warm and bright, soft and kind. It was everything one was meant to feel in life, through ease and strife. Nature was, in a way, a simile to life. This was the way that Mia had been raised: she had been taught how to care for bees, how seeds grew differently through the seasons, what soil flower took root in the best. In everything that there was, be it the trees or animals, the blizzards or sweet summer rains, she had always seen the good in it. There were ti...

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Author bio

they/them I'm just a high schooler with a fatal case of procrastination.