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Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020
Submitted to Contest #82
I looked at him through the screen. "Andrew?" He didn't answer. Why would he? "Am I really going to have copies? Sent out to other people to talk to them?" All that followed was silence. Even if he weren't warped by his emotions then, he would barely talk to me anyway. I was just an AI. I was artificial. I would never be comparable to the real things. I would never matter as much. "Will I help them?" He looked up from his hands, but still said nothing. "Do I help you, Andrew?" He slowly turned to me, his beautiful hazel e...
Submitted to Contest #65
Aerin cleared her throat before speaking. "Our next face-to-face meeting is on the 31st of October?""Yes, Aerin, you read that right," Finea replied. "Our next actual meeting is on the 31st of October, at 8pm."Aerin slammed her papers onto her desk so loudly that the other two women were able to hear it through their screens."Finea," she started, standing with both her palms on the desk. "Do you not realize the flaw in your plans?""I doubt she doesn't realize the flaw in this plan, Aerin," Inda spoke up. "I trust that she only saw it best to...
Submitted to Contest #55
She had asked me to meet her at the park where we- Chrissy and I- spent most of our time together. So I went. She was still with her friends when I arrived. I took a seat at the roots of a tree to wait. I looked up at the branches and leaves. It was the biggest tree in the small park, and probably the biggest tree in town. It was beautiful. Just like our love. Or what it was before. ~.~ "You know what?" Chrissy asked after she finished her daily rant to me. "Yeah?" "You know I don't talk much. You must be at least a little bit surp...
Submitted to Contest #44
Oliveria finished unpacking her things and wondered what to do next. Who am I kidding? It's 2330, she thought. She got into her pajamas and tucked herself into her bed. Waiting for sleep, she wondered why she was so clueless as to what to do in her own home. Maybe because she was never at home long enough to consider it her home. She had bought the house a little while after she graduated at a university nearby. After a week, she decided that she couldn't stay in the same town after all those awful years at the university. Almost i...
Submitted to Contest #42
Nara left her phone downstairs. She couldn't believe it. She had actually forgotten to take her phone upstairs with her when she went to sleep in her bedroom. There was nothing wrong with this. She was tired and she did need that sleep. The phone wasn't even important to her; countless times she had found herself becoming bored of it. There was just one tiny problem. She would use it to stop herself from going to sleep and stay up all night. Of course, this was wrong. She would be tired during the day and would sleep for hours...
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