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Pascale Marie

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2025

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Secret Admirer

Submitted to Contest #325

Lucy “Fine, you want me to say it?” I said as I looked my best friend square in the eyes, “I’m in love with a ghost.”She looked down, shaking her head. I could tell she wanted to be supportive, but then she said what I knew she’d been thinking all along.“You know you sound crazy, right?”“Yeah, well, maybe I am,” I retorted, trying not to show that I was hurt.“Lucy,” Carla’s voice softened, “you didn’t even know the guy when he was alive, how can you be in love with his ghost?”She was right. Jake and I had never met when he was still a living...

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The Family Holiday

Submitted to Contest #324

My family left me stranded somewhere in the Indian Ocean.I think it was by accident.They’ll come back for me.At least, I hope so. We were on our annual family vacation, and this year my parents planned a beach holiday.I hate the beach. There’s too much sand—it gets everywhere, and I don’t enjoy sizzling like a piece of bacon under the sweltering sun. My skin is much too fair to be exposed to that amount of UV rays, plus I can’t stand being covered head to toe in sticky sunscreen that doesn’t even work. And worst of all, my already unruly hai...

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Plankathon

Submitted to Contest #322

The rule was simple: whoever could hold a plank the longest would be the winner. Out of the seven competitors who entered, only two were left, and to Marybeth’s utter astonishment, she was one of them. They had been planking for over a minute, and Marybeth had never planked before in her life.She could feel the burn in her thighs and sweat dripping from her shins. Who knew that shins could sweat? Her elbows pressed into the mat, fingers intertwined, making her knuckles turn white. Her body was screaming at her to quit, but her mind yelled ba...

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