Megan Lange

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

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“The Unhouse” by Megan Lange

 The whistle of the kettle woke Alsa in the middle of the night and in turn she woke the entire Unhouse.  Clara was out of bed first, shuffling into the fussy baby’s room and picking her up. Everyone else stayed in bed ignoring the baby’s screams with pillows wrapped around their heads. Clara elected not to take the kettle off the stove. Someone else could get up and do it. Alsa was already awake, there was no sl...

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“No Jumping Off Bridge” by Megan Lange

“You wanna do something fun?” Brandy asked, nudging Garret on the arm with her knobby elbow. “I think there’s a river nearby.” It was a hot and stormy summer day. Heavy gray clouds clung to each other in the sky. Fat raindrops steamed on the burning blacktop soothing it so that Garret Perkins and Brandy Hershaw could run barefoot down to the river. It was their las...

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“Dream Weaver” by Megan Lange

In the dust that settles at the end of the world where the only light is the dimness of dawn, there is a woman sitting on a wooden chair. It is not a throne; she is not a queen. It is not a rocking chair; she is not a crone. It is a wooden chair you might find anywhere in the world, straight-backed and uncomfortable to sit on for long periods of time. She sits on it while she weaves with a cat sleeping lazily at her feet. There is a single flickering flame that lights her workspace, illuminating spools of thread in every imaginable color ...

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Megan Lange (she/her) Fiction writer based in Saint Paul, MN. Please reach out. I am always looking to connect with great minds! www.eatbookswriting.com

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