Molly Sickle

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“This Story Is Not About The Villain ” by Molly Sickle

Submitted to Contest #71

“A robbery?” I asked, a slight quiver slipping between the cracks in my vowels and sitting atop my bottom lip. “Come now, June, you know no one can take anything from us,” my manager asserted somewhat playfully. She edged closer to the ingredients and lifted her hand up and up in a blunt sort of pulling motion, and all across the room a shimmer flared over everything. it curled up into the air like the tendrils of a vine before it dissipated as though it was never ...

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“Little Ribbons ” by Molly Sickle

Submitted to Contest #54

I crawled up the stairs to my apartment, feeling the boundless nothing taking hold of me tighter with every step. I was hollowed out, empty, yet there was a tremendous heaviness that weighed me down. It was a feeling I had never experienced before. A piece of the world had just been ripped out, stolen away, so why are all my neighbors walking about as if nothing happened? I wanted to scream at them. How could they not feel it, this horrible grief that plagued me? Why me? Why her? I was so tired, so exhausted from the pain she left me with,...

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“Sarah?” by Molly Sickle

The cold gripped me, bit me, suffocated me. I found that I couldn’t escape it no matter how tightly I wove my arms around me. How long has it been since these Fall days have gotten below freezing? A few years? Nobody I’ve asked seems to know. When I left for work it was fine, this jacket would suffice, but now I wasn’t sure if I would make it the next few blocks to home. As I was staggering down the sidewalk, shielding my face from the slicing wind, my phone buzzed in my jacket. I harked back to when I had left work and swore that I had...

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I just like to write