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Raylee Hodson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2024

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Vengeance

Submitted to Contest #303

I didn’t have a choice.At least that is what people tell themselves when they commit a despicable act, perhaps deliberating between the neurons firing in their brain that forgiveness is in the cards. Maybe for stealing your friend’s bike or shoving a kid off the playground, but not for this. What I did, what I’ve done, well that is an entire new definition of despicable.……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….My hand shot immediately to the center of the steering wheel of my 2021 Honda Civic, a sharp burst of noise shooting from whatev...

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Get Me Out of Here

Submitted to Contest #289

The room is unfamiliar. I don’t know how I got here.  I slowly blinked my eyes open, a bright light shining down on my face. As I open my eyes, an enormous headache hits me with all its fury. I’ve gotten headaches, even migraines, before but this is by far the worst one. I try to think back to yesterday, scope out the cause of this sudden pain. Had I been out too late? Had I been drinking? But nothing. Absolutely nothing came to my mind. As I tried to think, my eyes settled on the light blue walls of my bedroom. That’s when it hit me. M...

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Raindrops

Submitted to Contest #288

I don’t know if I could really call my experience “waking up,” because I could have already been awake. But that’s what it felt like. I was suddenly conscious or aware or awake, and I knew that I was standing in the middle of the road in the rain. Why was I here? I don’t even know where “here” is. It could be my neighborhood or it could be foreign country. I stood in the road, not one part of my body moving except for the occasional turn of my head as I scanned my surroundings. Nothing. I don’t recognize one single thing. At this p...

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