Sadie Satkamp

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2020

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“It Took Ten Seconds” by Sadie Satkamp

Submitted to Contest #74

Trigger warning: rape He was decent-looking, maybe a little boring to look at. They always were. His hair was dark, perfectly combed over. You would never see a Marine without every hair in place. The fade must have been recent because it was still fresh. He had a weak chin and dark eyes. He had eyes that said he probably crunched numbers for a living or played a lot of chess. Calculating but ultimately uninteresting. He wasn’t a pretty boy; he probably had only ever been with a handful of girls, despite being in his early 20’s. He wa...

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“Thank You” by Sadie Satkamp

Submitted to Contest #74

`She combed her fingers through her wild curls, tugging them straight and letting them bounce back into the wild jungle that was the hair on her head. She stared at the opposite wall, spinning slightly in her computer chair. She’d requested this room in the apartment because it already had the chalkboard wall installed. It had been a last attempt to feed her muse and rescue the creativity inside of her that had been waning for a while now. Instead, the wall was lined with tally marks. Her running count was 2,983. It’s possible she’d counted ...

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“The Fourth of July” by Sadie Satkamp

Submitted to Contest #52

"The ABUs were discontinued in 2021." I don't know why or how that was the first thing that came to mind. I think I was just so surprised to see him there, in the flesh, standing outside of my apartment building. Originally, when I'd come out to take a smoke, noise-cancelling headphones still pressed tightly over my ears, I'd intended to watch the fireworks with bitterness and contempt. Three years since separating from the Air Force, and I still hated the Fourth of July. It felt near disrespectful that the way the US honors its forces is to...

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