Rachel Wilcox

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Mothers Don't Wear Orange Nail Polish” by Rachel Wilcox

Submitted to Contest #51

It was hot. Cara remembered why she never took assignments in Florida in the summer. It was too damn hot. She lifted her mass of curls off the back of her neck and fanned her face with a crumpled magazine. A family trooped past her wearing matching Hawaiian shirts and fantastic sunburns. Cara did a quick glance in her bag. Sunscreen. Got it. She squinted along the line of cars, watching the sun glint off the windshields, when she spotted what had to be her sister’s car. It was black, of course, and not a speck of dirt on it. The ve...

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“The First Amazon Woman” by Rachel Wilcox

Submitted to Contest #48

“You literally have a superpower,” TJ argued. “That’s cool!” “But it’s not a cool superpower. It’s not like I can fly or shoot lasers from my eyes or something,” Chloe sighed. She was walking home from school with her best friend. They were very different, she and TJ. She was tall and blond with the awkward gait of someone who grew too fast and didn't quite know what to do with their body. She was bookish and introverted, not much into sports and preferred the company of butterflies to humans. TJ, on the...

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“On the bright side, we haven't had an earthquake lately . . .” by Rachel Wilcox

Submitted to Contest #47

You looked out the window and, not for the first time, thought about how wrong the weather forecast had been. You'd been watching the weather channel obsessively, but it was always the same. Partly cloudy, bit of sunshine, chance of asteroids. Or fire tornadoes. Or plague of locusts. The occasional hornet swarm always shook things up. You sighed. Today it was partly cloudy, bit of sunshine, chance of zombies. Great. That was bound to clog up the subway system and you really didn’t feel like spending the money on an Uber. “It’s zomb...

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