Natalie Nicole

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2020

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“The Bottler” by Natalie Nicole

Submitted to Contest #24

His cellar is dark, but the Bottler knows its cataloged contents better than anyone. He peruses the shelves which contain his private collection of bottles, his fingers carefully lingering on one in particular. This specimen is a larger bottle that has been rubbed and polished enough that the cheap, gold veneer is changing color and wearing through. For a moment, he becomes abstractly aware of the darker emotions he once possessed and their associated memories, but it is difficult to reconstruct them. What remains in the bottles tell t...

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Hello all! I am a 24 year old aspiring writer who just recently finished a draft of my first novel. Though my degree has taken me down the science avenue, writing is a passion of mine, and I try to integrate the two fields whenever I get the chance. After I finished my draft, I didn't want to stop writing, but the idea of starting another huge project was daunting. Contests seemed like the perfect thing to keep writing while establishing some credibility.