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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020
Submitted to Contest #60
(Trigger warning: body horror) Your twenty-first birthday is supposed to be a super fun night spent bar hopping with your friends, which is why I believe I deserve some sort of cosmic redo. See before I even had the chance to use my now legal ID, a bunch of aliens from planet who gives a shit, in a galaxy far, far away, invaded Earth and decided to use the human race for their transgenic experiment. Or something like that. The Alien’s gurgle voice boomed out of their spacecrafts and echoed across the world but I was too overwhelmed to really...
Submitted to Contest #59
Harper fidgets with her sister Sammy’s keys as she steps off the Chicago sidewalk and into the apartment building. She stands in the entryway for a moment taking in the musty smell as a calming breath but it doesn’t ease her nerves. The air is too thick and too tense. Harper still feels the intense pressure on her chest and the hollowness in her bones she’s had since that phone call. Her sister’s absence is impossible to ignore. She looks out beyond the small entryway down the first floor hallway. Faded, chipped, red paint pathetically cling...
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