McKinsee Abbott

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2024

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“The Offspring” by McKinsee Abbott

The Offspring  It was New Year’s Day. A gray, soggy-sock day. The perfect day to visit Colleen. “On her birthday? Are you sure about this?” my mother asked me, a gentle, pained look on her face.  “There’s no better day to reach her. You know what this day has meant to her. Better than anyone, you know! Year after year you’ve been the most celebrated guest at her New Year’s birthday parties. Front and center, for the last 30 years.”  “Yes,” she nodded, gazing past me with shiny eyes. “So many wonderful years. Colleen was so sur...

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“The Secrets of Darkness” by McKinsee Abbott

Submitted to Contest #282

I'm sure it didn't happen all at once, but one day, it grew too dark for me to see. The Darkness had rested upon me like an endless, smothering blanket and try as I did, I could not find my way out from under it.At first, I was writhing, panicked, and desperate. And then I grew tired, resigned, and hopeless. It was in this state that I was still enough to see it: it was very small, not bigger than the head of a pin--yet, easy to see under my pitch-black canopy. Warm, yellow, glowing, it was...was...what?"Light," the speck called out, drawing...

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