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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022
Bedbugs scare me. We had a lot of them a few years ago. Back when I was little. I think about it sometimes at night in my room, but that’s not what keeps me up anymore. My parents are getting divorced. They don’t know I know, but I do. Sometimes I sneak around the house at night when they think I’m sleeping. It started with the bedbugs, I just didn’t wana be in my bed. And it then it got kinda fun, so I kept doing it. But then one night, I’m crawling under the dining room table, my arms getting all scratched from that rough carpet, and my ...
Submitted to Contest #137
She looked in the mirror that extended from her hand, a past ripened fruit on a gnarled, knotted branch. Those eyes were once dark olive ovals, lips would press like deep red petals.It was summertime in a park, where children played and giggled and cried. She sat on the bench in the shade of a great oak. The smell of hotdogs wafted over from the stand a few feet away. A greasy man with greasy hands yelled out “Two for a dollah.” A happy couple passed and gave him a dollar.She sat with her hands on her lap, as the sun shone off her dress, foa...
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