Rose Gresh

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2022

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“A Second Shadow” by Rose Gresh

Submitted to Contest #169

Shadows moved with the sun. There was no shadow without light–a natural balance the world set in motion eons ago–and everything: all people, places, creatures, and things, could cast one with ease.  Lucy Whitlock had two.  Her original shadow behaved as a shadow should. It moved like hands on a clock around her body, lengthening in the legs to an awkward degree when the sun was at a certain angle and shrinking as the light sank lower in the sky. Her second shadow–one Lucy earned when she was six years old–stayed fixed, roo...

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“The Curious Case of Ambrose Sykes” by Rose Gresh

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #169

I.From the Journal of Ambrose Sykes, Aspiring Writer & PoetThe Curious Case of Storms in Graveyards – 1849The graveyard blazes to life in a brief flash of white light, and all at once, the lightning seems to inhabit every space–each imperfection on the silent sentinels keeping watch over the dead. Angelic faces weep. Crosses burn in the heat of it. It is chaos in an instant and no more. When it dies, darkness returns. Layers of the blackest ink spilled–spread across the dotted cemetery, fleeing the long, annoyed groan of thunder as it mu...

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Contest #169
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