Merissa Harde

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2020

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3 Stories

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“The Outsider” by Merissa Harde

Submitted to Contest #59

Trevor eyed him; his curiosity piqued. In a town with the population under three hundred, outsiders were easily spotted. Every teenager at the party had grown up together, from kindergarten to high school; everyone knew each other and each other’s secrets. The stranger, who stood outside, a cigarette dangled out the side of his mouth, was full of undiscovered secrets. Of course, that made everyone uncomfortable. The teenagers believed themselves to be friendly, but within limits – and since his ex-girlfriend, Marie, had brought the mysteriou...

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“What Lies Inside” by Merissa Harde

Submitted to Contest #55

“Can you keep a secret?” She stood beside her grandfather in his and her grandmother’s attic, past old broken toys and hidden behind old jackets and coats no one wore, sat a wooden chest in the corner of the room. By the amount of dust it was clear it had been there for decades, but she had never seen it before. She noticed it as she cleaned out the room with her grandfather, while her mother and father undertook the basement. She tried to move it to see if there were photos inside. It had been a month since her grandmother passed. Her gran...

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“The Dress” by Merissa Harde

Submitted to Contest #31

Doing her teenage daughter’s laundry was a tedious activity she usually put off until the weekend. It was a pile of denim jeans, T-shirts, sundresses, and the occasional dressy outfit she wore the weekend before while out with friends. Sometimes she poured herself a glass of red wine while she did; her way of rewarding herself. However, that weekend she had chosen a Sunday, right after breakfast, while her daughter studied in her bedroom. Soon, her daughter would do her own laundry, when she went off to college, but until then it didn’t both...

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