Nicole Winchester

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2023

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Hopscotch” by Nicole Winchester

Submitted to Contest #194

Those damned kids were on his damned property again. Wesley Fellows lifted his aging, creaking body out of his armchair and muted his favorite news program, interrupting the newscaster’s particularly heated argument against putting litter boxes in elementary school bathrooms. The armchair left an imprint of his body molded into it as he stood. Dust danced through the sheets of Saturday sunlight cutting through his dark living room, one whose furnishings hadn’t changed much since the early nineties. He leaned close to his window and poked o...

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“Mother's Day” by Nicole Winchester

Submitted to Contest #193

“Happy Mother’s Day, Mommy!” I gasped and jolted awake, bumping my skull on the headrest. In the doorway stood my daughter, Zoe, my five-year-old angel who had ever so graciously given me four hours of blissful, uninterrupted sleep. The beaming, gap-toothed smile on her face was worth every second of being kept awake with an unending stream of Youtube videos. Well, nearly. I tried, okay? Don’t judge. I’d usually get her to bed at eight, and then, somehow, she’d be up at midnight sneaking around, no matter how much I pleaded with her to g...

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Author bio

An aspiring novelist with a full-time day job, who has a penchant for writing too-long fanfics.