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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021
Submitted to Contest #97
Tat tat tat. From one of the manor’s numerous windows, a noise like a psychotic moth ramming into the glass outside interrupted the silence of the night, disturbing the rest of the sleeper inside.“Mmm…” a voice moaned from the four-poster bed that was situated against the center of the back wall. Tat tat tat tat! The glass of the window rattled in its frame as the nose persisted, this time a little more urgently than the last. “What is it…?” a muffled woman’s voice groaned. She had hardly gotten the words out of her mouth before she was...
Submitted to Contest #95
The hinges creaked, protesting from ages of neglect. I felt the cool bronze of the doorknob pressed against one of my clammy palms, and the rough, peeling wood of the door beneath my other as I began to push it open. My heart pounded against my chest. I could feel the blood raging through my head. Everything was so loud that I wondered if anyone else could hear it. Then I remembered that I was alone. I stood by my lonesome before the two doors, ultimately deciding my own fate. Glancing over one last time at the door next to me, I paused, hes...
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