Nicole Elwell

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021

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“The Scenario” by Nicole Elwell

Submitted to Contest #231

Her throat itched. She asked it to emerge. It buckled, both of them wondering if it was even alive. She asked, near begged it: exist. And quickly. A burn ran down the front of her. Was that her way of knowing she could do it? Her eyes drifted past the lecture building, up the red orange leaves dancing along the mountain face. She knew about the trail leading through those thick trees. There was a cue up that hill, hovering in the forest, waiting to be met. She would be guided to it. They all would. They would walk into t...

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“The Inhale ” by Nicole Elwell

Submitted to Contest #96

We were on our way to get my things when a man in a bright neon yellow hooded sweatshirt waved my former roommate down. The two of us paused at the street crossing to allow his approach, my roommate beginning a conversation even with the unlikelihood of the man hearing it, while my eyes crept upward to the row of houses before us. The damage really didn’t look so bad, at least not from here. Not as bad as one figured it would be, having watched news coverage of the height of the blaze when the tendril flames were at their strongest, leaping ...

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