Rachel Fox

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2021

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“When a wife becomes wicked (and other small things)” by Rachel Fox

Submitted to Contest #277

It would be a lie to say I didn’t mean to do it. That’s what I tell myself as I look down at you, or should I say at the body that was yours. With the person departed from it, it looks so benign, as though any spirit could have inhabited it. If only it had. We sit at our kitchen table. You slam down the knives and forks. Shake your head as you throw our food down in front of us. I know. I should be grateful you cooked. “Here”. “Service with a smile,” I put on a cheery voice, I don’t know how I’ll eat this with this lump in my throat, but I’l...

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“Finders, keepers” by Rachel Fox

Submitted to Contest #124

I only took my eyes off her for a second. Swinging pigtails, soft legs. Scan quickly back up the path, peer into the woods calling her name, trying to keep the panic out of my voice. It’s cold. Sweat prickles my neck. I tell myself she can’t have gone far, whistle the dogs. They don’t come back. I call their names. Maybe they’re together, you hear stories about dogs looking after children. I clamber down the muddy bank to the river, the light is going, bile rises in my throat pushes curses out. I shout her name, No child, no dogs. My h...

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Author bio

Some time writer, lover of stories and the outdoors.