Peyton Mae

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“The Girl, the Book, and the Blizzard” by Peyton Mae

Submitted to Contest #37

The exposed ankle in the gap between my rolled-up jeans and the top of my sneakers is freezing, and it’s all I can think about as I hurry home under street lamps dimmed by snowflakes. It’s times like these, when the air is wet and cold and seems to encase you in the thinnest layer of ice, that I wish for the hearth of my childhood home in Maine. It was the perfect sort of place to camp out in a snowstorm: a log cabin with a crackling fireplace, stocked with canned soup and packets of hot cocoa and puzzles, not to mention a sizable collection...

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“I Never Tire of the Blue Sky” by Peyton Mae

Submitted to Contest #35

I open my eyes against the sunbeams warm and heavy on my eyelashes. Tree branches criss-cross above me, laden with apple blossoms. They’re dainty white with pink edges so perfect I think the color must be hand-brushed on each petal. The sun washes the color out of the world, giving a lovely faded appearance to everything except the sky. It makes sense that only the sky is strong enough to overpower the sun, the vibrance of it, the vastness of it. I could look into it for hours and still be hungry for more, wanting to taste every shade of blu...

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