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Monica Hawkins

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

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Violet

My laptop was like my best friend. It knew everything about me. What I wanted to watch on YouTube, what I wanted to look up and who I wanted to talk to. It always keeps me occupied and I always know what to do on it. Mom said it was a bad habit for me to always be on a screen. But she never took my phone away. But on one dull Thursday, Mom was nagging me. “Preston, you really should get up and play outside! You’re going to get out of shape and fat, then you are going to die alone all because you never went outside. It’s really not that ha...

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Shormist

Submitted to Contest #149

I looked in the mirror, brushing light pink eyeshadow over my eyelids. A bristle from the brush poked my eye. I blinked several times, trying to get the powdery dust out. My eye stung badly. I turned on the faucet and splashed some fresh cold water in my eye. I wiped my eye with a towel, but a cold mist washed over me, making me feel cold and forgotten for a few long seconds. I shook off the feeling and blinked some more, but all of a sudden the light above me flickered. I stopped blinking and closed my eye to look up. The light ...

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