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Rebecca Lewis

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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Pluck, Pluck, Plucking Away

Submitted to Contest #38

My name is Melanie Sue Gladstone and I live in a friendly, stuck-in-time small town, sort of like Mayberry with a local barber shop and friendly city sheriff. The local newspaper is very popular and incredibly it manages to put out a weekly edition every Thursday. Full of local news and events, obituaries, high school sports and Aunt Doris' Recipes for rhubarb pie and S'mores. The cobblestone streets are lined with huge elm trees and every other front yard is meticulously manicured and boasts a white picket fence. My next door neighbor to th...

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What Really Matters

Submitted to Contest #35

What really matters in this life? Is being wanted all that important? Is being popular a prerequisite for success? Sighing, I opened it one more time. The little, precisely folded note from Daniel was short, succinct and devoid of anything personal. An invitation to the school dance complete with date and time. His handwriting was sloppy, barely legible.Against my better judgment and with a sense of self loathing, I accepted. This would be my first dance, my very first date as a matter of fact. I had never had a date, not one. I was not one ...

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Alaska Calling

Yes, my friend, there is certainly something truly unique about the far North regions of our 49th state, something alluring and silently beckoning. And yes, even now still something mysterious and more than just a tiny bit frightening. It is a vast land of moody mystery, its sprawling endless miles stretching from the lower southern peninsula to the frozen tundra of the Arctic. The land of the midnight sun, great herds of hardy caribou and wooly musk oxen making their journeys on snowy trails to destinations unknown. Adventurers and their ta...

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