Rebecca Loften

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2021

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“What We Heard” by Rebecca Loften

Submitted to Contest #135

When they came for us, no one said a word.We heard they were looking for us. Not us in particular, but anyone like us. We heard they were going from town to town, rounding us up. Pounding on doors in the middle of the night, looking in cupboards, under floorboards, determined to root us out. Assembling us in the streets - cold, trembling, scared - before packing us onto trains and deporting us to the camps. And we all knew what happened in the camps. Maybe not the specific details - those we wouldn’t learn until much, much later - but w...

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“Please Come” by Rebecca Loften

Submitted to Contest #122

“Come on, come on, come on,” Angie muttered as her fingers drummed the steering wheel. Leaning as far as she could within the confines of the driver’s seat, she craned her head, trying once again to catch a glimpse of whatever was causing this nightmare of a traffic jam. Thirty-four minutes, she’d been stuck in this exact spot. Thirty-five now, and the cars around her had barely moved an inch. She’d put her Volvo in park twenty minutes ago and might have turned off the engine as well, if it weren’t just on the wrong side of freezing outsid...

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“Meditation” by Rebecca Loften

🏆 Winner of Contest #120

[CW: eating disorders] Breathe in. Let your eyes close. Let your mind wander. Think back to a time when you were happy as a child. There must have been times when you were happy. Notice any tension in your forehead. Relax the muscles between your eyebrows. The time when you were three and your parents took you to a water park. You were scared of the tallest slides, but you felt safe in Daddy’s arms. You loved the bright pink flowers on your black swimsuit, the neon green ruffles around your waist. The river stone pathways bisect...

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Author bio

I live in NYC with my partner and the world's cutest puppy. www.rebeccaloften.com

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Contest #120
Meditation – read story