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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019
Submitted to Contest #61
She sits alone in the room, five and so certain she knows everything is to know, oh so certain that she need not learn anything else about the world because she already knows so much about the world she wished she had. Her mother and father worry, you know, worry that perhaps they shouldn’t have shown her that movie. That movie with the woman who swings around a deadly blade that her beloved fiancé crafted for her with his own blood, sweat, and tears.But it’s too late. The damage is done. She wants little to do with modernity. She’ll use the...
Submitted to Contest #53
The heat was so sweltering Charlie was certain, much like the blue puddle that had just minutes ago been a popsicle, his skin would melt into something that could never be saved again. He’d be left as bones and muscle, and the sun would kill roast his organs to nothingness. It wouldn’t have been so bad the A/C unit hadn’t died a week ago before things got too hot, but it did die. And he was left boiling in his own skin. It was better to stay outside, he reminded himself. Better to stay away from his sister’s crying baby. Already, he could h...
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