Michaela Joy

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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“Empty Barrack” by Michaela Joy

Submitted to Contest #185

They came just before dawn, slinky and quiet like a shadow. Eberhart did not see them coming, had no idea, really, that anyone knew what he kept beneath his floorboards. They must have worked quickly, efficiently because everything was completely cleaned out before the sun cast its first rays into the house. Before he woke to feed his five chickens in the pen in his backyard, before his creaky muscles rose in the creaky old house to put the coffee on, to brush his teeth, before the morning paper came. It must have been hours before Ebe...

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