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Robyn Jipp

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

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What Happens at the DMV

Robyn Jipp

Submitted to Contest #49

You don't need to keep checking your watch, I reprimand myself as I look at my watch for the hundredth time. It's not going to make the line move any faster. I hate the DMV. But then again, I don't know anyone who can claim to love it. The guy directly in front of me has a little boy with him, maybe five or six years old, who keeps ducking in and out of the line underneath the crowd control barrier. He ducks back under and bumps into my leg. "Oopsie," I comment. His dad turns around, exasperated. "Be careful, Dustin," he chides his son. "Apo...

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I Was Right!

Robyn Jipp

Submitted to Contest #48

I'm almost one hundred percent sure our new next door neighbor has super powers. She seemed pretty normal when she moved in last week, but yesterday I saw something that made me think there's something weird about her. Yesterday was only a half-day at school because it was the last day before summer vacation, and when I got home I went out into the back yard to shoot my Nerf gun at the bullseye I taped to the fence. I heard the neighbor's cat meowing really loud and when I looked up I saw it was really high up in a tree in her yard. I think ...

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Because of Emily

Robyn Jipp

Submitted to Contest #46

"Why don't you write anymore?""You know why.""After all this time?"I can feel my hand involuntarily tightening around my phone and I have to make a conscious effort to relax my grip."How can you say that?!""It's been seven years, Danni.""How can you say that, Darren?! She was your daughter too!""Okay. I know. Maybe I shouldn't have said it like that. I'm sorry. But why haven't you started writing again? You told me writing was your life."Writing had been my life before Emily was born. Once she came into the world she became my life, and when...

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Part of the Change

Robyn Jipp

Submitted to Contest #45

God, I'm nervous. I'm so nervous.I've never been to a demonstration before, and never thought I would be the kind of person to go in for all that. But the murder of George Floyd was the straw that broke this camel's back. I refuse to sit idly by any longer and watch my brothers and sisters be treated with blatant inhumanity and injustice.Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against white people. I have nothing against cops either, for that matter. But if I don't at least do my part to speak out against this inexcusable crime then I can't claim...

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When One Hunts Dragons

Robyn Jipp

Submitted to Contest #44

The dawn had barely begun to paint the sky a golden hue when Sparrow mounted her white mare Destiny with her longbow and arrows slung across her back and her sword hanging at her hip. She wore no armor, for she had discovered from previous experience that it weighed her down and prevented her from moving swiftly enough to deliver the killing blow.Her father reached up to clasp her hand briefly in his."I wish you would not go, Sparrow.""You say the same every time I leave, Papa. You know that I must go." She touched the leather cord around he...

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Books and Baseball

Robyn Jipp

Submitted to Contest #43

Tyler stumbled down the cement steps, barely managing not to fall to his knees as someone slammed into him from behind."See you next year, nerd," Josh laughed. He rammed into Tyler's shoulder as he shoved past him, sending him stumbling again. "I bet you'll be an even bigger nerd then.""And I bet you'll be an even meaner bully," Tyler mumbled under his breath. He didn't really want to contemplate how that could be possible. The shoving and name-calling he had endured from Josh all year had been bad enough. The time Josh had gotten hold of hi...

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I'm Not Scared Anymore

Robyn Jipp

Submitted to Contest #43

Katie wasn’t a caterpillar anymore. She was a butterfly now, and she knew it was time to leave her cocoon. But she was scared.All of her friends had already hatched. They flew around her cocoon and called for her to join them.“Come out, Katie!” Her friend Jenny called. “Come play with me in the sunshine!”Katie liked the warm sunshine. She liked the pretty blue sky and the soft, puffy white clouds.She wanted to leave her cocoon and play with Jenny.She stretched out one blue and yellow wing and felt the air. She t...

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Waiting For Sunrise

Robyn Jipp

Submitted to Contest #42

It is frowned upon for my kind to develop romantic attachments, especially with one another. This makes a certain amount of sense when you take into consideration the fact that our lives are lived in shadow, evading the Hunters that seek to wipe us out of existence.Yet it is nearly impossible to make the heart understand reason. This is true even of a heart that no longer beats.Her name was Callie and she was my child. By this I mean that I was the one who bestowed upon her the blessing (or curse) of immortality.Our relationship was at first...

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Veggiesaurus Rex

Robyn Jipp

Submitted to Contest #41

Rory the Tyrannosaurus was excited. It was his birthday and his mother had promised him that she would take him out for his very first hunt.For weeks he had been practicing the lunge-and-snap technique his mother had taught him and working on his fearsome roar. After all that practice his lunge had gotten faster and he could now snap his jaws together with impressive force. His roar was still not quite as terrifying as the sound the adult Tyrannosaurs were capable of emitting, but he was sure he'd get better at it with more practice.He was u...

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Camping Trip

Robyn Jipp

Submitted to Contest #40

Becca:Yeah, I can tell you exactly what happened that night, but I don't know if you'll believe me.The day started out with Nicole, Debbie, Alyssa and me picking Lena up from the airport. She'd spent most of the summer in Europe, and since there were still a couple more weeks before school started up again the five of us decided to go camping together at my patents' vacation cabin in the woods. So we piled into my mom's minivan, which I had to beg her to let me borrow, and after scooping Lena up from the airport we headed off. I don't know i...

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