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Sasha Burton

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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The New Recruit

Sasha Burton

Submitted to Contest #56

All summer Natalie had been pondering this day with a mixture of excitement, anxiety and promise. The first day of school, her first at a new job. She’d gotten too comfortable at her old local comp after seven years of what felt like the same lessons, trips and staff room moans and felt it was time for a change. She’d met this new department which she would lead on her interview day and they didn’t seem fully keen. Sarah, a plucky NQT seemed to welcome the change, but the older male teacher, Michael, seemed damp in her...

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The Snapshot

Sasha Burton

Submitted to Contest #53

“She’s going to fucking loathe this,” Gareth thought with satisfaction as he uploaded the picture to the group’s Whatsapp. It was a snapshot of their perfect family : Katrina his wife, in the passenger seat of course; Alison, reading dutifully in the back; Patrick, three, cheekily grinning up at the camera. They had to be the happiest, he thought, surely. He scrolled through the previous messages, all sent in a flurry that morning as thirteen university friends were set to meet again after a ten year hiatus during which most, if not all...

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The Shallow Circle

Sasha Burton

Submitted to Contest #46

The girl span through the air, furniture flying past her haphazardly. He had spent a long time picking this picture out, it had a sort of Alice in the Wonderland vibe which he liked. He didn’t care for Lewis Caroll, especially in light of recent events, and certainly didn’t want to look as though he associated with him in anyway but he could help but fantasise that perhaps one of his acolytes might write a novel with as much success. He was too busy to write another successful book at the moment, he’d established t...

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The Longest and Shortest Hours of Your Life

Sasha Burton

Submitted to Contest #44

The Longest and Shorter Hour of your life6:00am: Sun wakes me up at dawn. It’s strong and searing but welcome. I pull myself out of the muddy hole that I’ve carved out into the side of the trench. I find that Sam has fallen asleep on my foot and I have to shake it out before I can put my weight on it. The putty’s have slipped down on my left foot and I have to take them of completely, strip them of mud and dead lice, and rebandage them for inspection at 6:15am.6:00 am: First day of school. My mum examines me, patting do...

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