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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2021
Submitted to Contest #89
Just in case you need to know: This story has some dead in it. You watch as the sun peeks out of the clouds. A smile escapes your lips. Foul witch. “Shut up,” you tell that voice in your head. Flames lick the wood of the mansion that sits on the hill. You try hard not to giggle. The clouds turn a shade of pink. You reach out, holding them in the palm of your hands. You can feel the cotton in your hands, but when you open your hand again, nothing’s there. Sinister snake. You let them say their distasteful words. Hear their cries. A li...
Bullets. Who’s there? Gunshots. Where am I? Bodies. Everything is white. Screams. My ears aren’t working. Kids and adults. I wake up in a white room, breathing hard. I can’t sit up. Men and women in white are standing around me. “She’s awake doctor!” someone says. She sounds distant, an echo in a cave. “Oh, thank god!” someone else says. The doctor. My vision starts to fade. A blob appears. It waves. “Don’t get up.” “I can’t,” I say, “Help me get up.” “Not right now.” “Tell me what’s going on, just once. Please,” I say desperately. “Okay, su...
It’s gone.It’s quiet.Crying.It’s cold. No one is saying anything. I can’t hear anything. My back hurts.It’s dark. A girl stands alone with her tongue sticking out of her mouth. A drop of wetness drop on her cheek. She moves to wipe it away but drops her hand back down. Another falls into her dark brown hair. Another on her eyelash.A brown box is lowered into the hole. She straitens her neck, letting all the drops fall to the ground. Her features scrunch together. Her nose and eyes turn pink.Dirt is tossed into a hole. She looks like she’s dr...
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