Rachel Morris

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019

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“The Old House” by Rachel Morris

Submitted to Contest #119

The house stood silently by the sea, she thought. It was an annoying habit of Jessie’s; annoying to her, anyway. It was happening inside her, so no one else knew of or was bothered by it. She seemed incapable of experiencing life without being distanced from it by a screen of precise descriptive sentences from inside her own skull. A tireless, grammatically perfect narrator. This feature kept her in a living, or the semblance of one, for now. But sometimes she feared what the cost might be. She stood at the foot of the driveway to the hous...

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“The Boy” by Rachel Morris

Submitted to Contest #7

I lived in London, south of the river, before it happened, in a place called Crystal Palace. I always felt sort of annoyed with it, like it was a bad friend, because there was no palace there at all, let alone a crystal one. Not like that Buckingham one where I saw big men with fur hats stomping about. I loved that place. I got in trouble though because I kept trying to get in the men’s way, for a laugh, like. We went home early and I had no tea. I was locked in my room, so I got to play with my toy soldiers for ages, until after it was dark...

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Author bio

Formerly a human rights law academic and international project manager; now a full-time writer, editor, proofreader, and illustrator. Trapped in the UK by Brexit.