Piper Jenne

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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3 Stories

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“Orange Juice” by Piper Jenne

Submitted to Contest #222

I was in the orange juice section of the dairy aisle when I received my first prayer. It sometimes happens that way, I guess. I was just looking for some juice with a little bit of pulp, but there are a million and one pulp options to choose from. There's semi-strained and mid-range and mildly-chunky and almost-a-solid and I couldn't tell what any of them meant but I just needed to get the juice that Claudia would drink and I didn't have time to stand in the goddamn juice aisle having a panic attack over pulp but it was happening and there w...

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“A Final, Desperate Entreaty” by Piper Jenne

Submitted to Contest #221

This house was mine first, don't you see? My husband built it from nothing, and together we made it a home. We brought up our children here. We fought here. We made love here. And yes, I died here. It was a mistake, truly. My husband wasn't like that all the time. He had had been laid off and it was the depression, no one was hiring. The stress of having four hungry mouths to feed weighed on him so heavily you could see the bow in his back deepen every day. The odd jobs he managed to pick up here and there weren't enough to pay the bills and...

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“The Last Treasure” by Piper Jenne

Submitted to Contest #185

On a barren mountainside glowing pink with sunrise, two fairies worried at the entrance of a rock-hewn tunnel that gaped hungry and silent.“Go on, then,” urged the fairy dressed in ivy leaves. His silken wings scattered refracted light across the landing as he flitted back and forth, back and forth.“Just give me a minute, yeah?” the other said, running damp palms down the petals of her iris tunic.“You said yourself this hoard’s been abandoned. Nothing to be afraid of, right?”“I know! I know it’s probably completely safe, I just…!” Iris pause...

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