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Rachel Frankki

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019

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Too Many Pineapples

Submitted to Contest #20

You think it can’t get any worse? This consistent feeling of anxiety that harbors your soul? I’m just standing in the produce section of my local grocery store; and all I can think about the difficulty of choosing the right pineapple for my mom’s fruit salad. I mean, she’s the one making this damn salad, why did she have to wake me up from my nap just so I could go buy it? I never buy fruit, what if I get one that’s not ripe yet but then it gets forgotten about and becomes moldy? Or one that’s too moldy and my mom shuns me? It’s like my memb...

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I Only Trust Myself

Submitted to Contest #18

Rain was pouring as the puppet show came into the village. With them came dark skies, thunderous clouds, and vicious claps of lightning that were brighter than any lamp invented. Everyone understood that the puppet business didn't stop for any sort of weather altercation however. The performers were covered, so what did it matter if the audience was soaked through their clothing for entertainment. As long as the puppeteers got their money from ticket sales, they could care less about the actual people they were providing for.  I suppose...

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My Family Was Right

Submitted to Contest #16

My family told us not to go into the woods but that afternoon, my cousin Sam and I ventured into the darkness of the trees. We both packed a small bag of necessities just in case we felt like adventuring for more than a quick look around. Part of us wanted to discover what everyone in our family was consistently covering up during conversation.  Our yearly family reunion was being held at my great-grandma’s house, but everyone in her neighborhood was sneakily discussing how weird things had been seen and heard coming from the ancient fo...

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Jonathen's Wish

Submitted to Contest #16

I knew from the second I did it, that I shouldn’t have wished for the ingredients to make a love elixir. I had just become so desperate that I didn't know what else to do. I was losing my last chance to be with the woman I love, a love that was unrequited and incomparable to any other. Well at least, it would be, if I could have a chance to talk to her for more than a few minutes.  I had gone to the market one morning to grab the ingredients for my mother’s famous potato soup that she was preparing for dinner that evening. It was a rain...

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The Princess Was the One for Me

Submitted to Contest #16

Falling in love at first sight, was not an idea I heard throughout my childhood. I grew up hunting in the woods for survival, where my parents taught me all of their skills pertaining to living in the wilderness. They were the ones that told me how to properly skin a wild animal while also looting a royal carriage, and not get caught. To be able to stave off hunger when the winter was harsh, and there wasn’t a variety of easily accessed food. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t have been able to continue living in the woods after their deaths...

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The Mark of the Apocalypse

Submitted to Contest #15

“Rey, I told you this already. I don’t know how I managed to travel in time, it just happened,” I groaned into my pillow. “I had been taking a walk in the woods when I stopped to look at this beautiful pine tree. The bark had weird grooves so I placed my hand on it, and that’s when I felt the ground shaking from under me with machine guns and screaming in the distance.” “But surely it was some freak dream,” She pleaded. “Time travel isn’t real.” “That’s what I wanted to believe too, until I looked up and saw the sky was on fire. It was the e...

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The Doorless Elevator Company by Rachel Frankki

Submitted to Contest #15

Walk into another Doorless Elevator Company and act as though you’re a newbie because you’re so cocky at this business with all your knowledge, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. This was the farthest thing from fun though. I was overwhelmed out of my wits and was just itching to take control of this company too. But to win the annual bonus competition that the office held, I had to manage to survive working a week in another Doorless Elevator Head Quarter. Or for short, the DEHQ. Ever since the idea took off in 2102, nobody has seen the do...

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The Important Delivery on a Yacht

Submitted to Contest #14

The Important Delivery on a Yacht by Rachel Frankki “Really it was just an excuse to drink publicly, or I wouldn’t have gone,” I stated angrily while my interrogator stared into my soul in hopes of figuring out my buried secrets. We had been in this small and smelly room for what seemed like hours now. The only problem was he wanted answers that I genuinely didn't have.  “There’s countless places to drink publicly. What specifically drew to this party?” “I mean, yachts are cool and always full of rich people.” “So your attraction was ba...

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McDouglas Wants Me

Submitted to Contest #12

McDouglas Wants Me by Rachel Frankki  “This is all completely immoral,” The old codger from the council exclaimed. Of course he had already heard the news before the events were actually taking place. Nothing remained a secret in a village where everyone was scared out of their wits. “The dead deserve to be at peace and not be dug up for the sake of an experiment!” “It’s not an experiment!” One of the women chimed in. “This town has had numerous reports of this man being seen in the flesh and we need to see if his flesh is still in the ...

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The Dead Walk Out of the Sea

Submitted to Contest #12

The Dead Walk Out of the Sea by Rachel Frankki  “Mom do we really have to go to the beach today? It’s so cold out!” I groaned and dragged a withered beach towel over my shoulders. It was the middle of October and my Mom wanted to go the beach. Don’t ask me why, I couldn’t understand it. All I could expect from today was a swimming trip that left you unable to feel any source of warmth for the next few days.  “Yes, Jessica! You know it’s going to be so much fun!” She shouted from behind the red cooler she was pulling out of the trun...

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