Scarlet Scribe

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

Stories (24)

24 Stories

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“Sudden Dreams” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #103

Sylvia woke with a start. She knew she had been dreaming but her mind was still too fuzzy to rely on. It was something about a man and a building that looked a lot like her apartment complex. But then almost every apartment building in her neighborhood looked the same. She glanced at the clock and saw it was only five minutes before the alarm would go off so she shut off the alarm before going to the bathroom. As she washed her face and brushed her teeth, she couldn’t seem to shake the after effects of that dream!  Since it ...

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“Human Nature” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #102

Tempskya is a true and natural child of the soil. Gaia is her mother. She is not a cultivated weed of the ancients worshiping non-existent gods because she is older than these humans. She is aware that human nature is disorderly but she refuses to accept it cannot change. Humankind continues to destroy the very earth that has nurtured it for millennia. It is time the planet protects itself before its very existence is no more. She began to send messages far and wide to every living thing through Gaia. Her words of warning reached every plant...

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“Reflections” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #101

Stella looked at her reflection in the full body mirror on her bedroom wall. She reflected on her long life. A few days ago she became an octogenarian. Where had the years gone? They flew by so fast! She studied her reflection, seeing images from teen years to her current eighty years of age. The agility and glow of youth tainted by five miscarriages faded into middle age but she was still agile and the manifestation of her achievements flowed through her mind. Her success as an administrative assistant, bookkeeper, legal clerk joi...

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“The Secret Stew Ingredient” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #100

The Wiebolds each received an invitation to dinner at Gus Amante’s house. Gus had been a family friend as long as any of them remembered. All accepted the invitation and looked forward to enjoying his special stew.  Gus Amante, a local chef, was busy cooking for his dinner party. He reached for his special seasoning and knocked over a bottle of Amobarbital into the stew. He grabbed the bottle before all the pills spilled and fished the cap out of the stew. The drug had been prescribed for his insomnia but he hadn’t taken it for months...

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“Our Camping Trip Of A Lifetime” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #99

July is just around the corner. This time of the year always reminds me of 1983. My husband and I were making plans for the camping trip of a life time. We were preparing for tent camping and rockhounding across twenty-one states to celebrate our anniversary. We had everything we needed except our tent, sleeping bags and other camping supplies we were buying just before our trip. August could not get here soon enough. The day finally came. We had everything we needed for our trip. There was even a new luggage rack on top of my AMC Gremlin....

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“A Dream Becomes A Nightmare” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #98

Lila was startled from sleep by a dream. In it she saw a man grab a women off the street and into the foyer of a building. It was very dark so she could not see his face, only an arm clad in a dark colored shirt with a gold cuff link in the sleeve and a large, hairy hand reaching from the pitch black of the doorway and pulling the woman into the darkness. She had watched the woman coming down the street in light from the streetlamps. She looked to be in her twenties with long copper colored hair and wearing a white blouse under a forest gree...

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“Dreaming Of The Stars” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #97

Asta sat by the guest bedroom window gazing at the stars while wondering what it would be like to travel to outer space and maybe see aliens. Lately she had trouble sleeping and found looking out of this bedroom window soothed her enough to go back to sleep so her parents allowed her to come to this empty guest room now containing only her chair where she could see the stars better. The moon had already set and all the neighborhood lights were off so the only light was from the stars. So many stars she could not coun...

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“The Day The Stranger Came To Our Town” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #96

It was a quiet day in my little home town. Circumstances had taken me away when I was very young but when I retired, I came back to my roots. When I left, the population was just over five hundred but that had dwindled to about half. Old ones had died and young one preferred to leave for the big cities. Some came trickling back and others like me, came back in retirement but we were few. We were not enough to bring back the hey-day of our little community called Old Mill Run. There used to be a decent sized stream running north to south at t...

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“24 Hour Blindfold Challenge” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #94

“Brad, you aren’t going to accept Walt’s dare to be blindfolded for twenty-four hours are you?” “Sure am. It can’t be that hard. I only have to stay blindfolded and alone in my apartment for twenty-four hours.” “You have always told me you can’t stand to have your eyes covered by anything so how are you going to keep your eyes covered with a blindfold that long?” “That is why Walt dared me. He knows I can’t even stand to have someone like you sneak up behind me and cover my eyes with your hands. But I’ll show him I can win the $50...

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“The House Of Shadows” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #92

The house where I grew up is still here! I thought it would have been torn down years ago. When I received the letter saying I had inherited this old property, I expected to see an empty field. Well, since I’m here, I guess I’ll take a look at the old place. The steps still creak in the same places they used to. Oops! That board is rotten and almost made me turn my ankle. Glad I wore sneakers instead of heels today. I wonder if the door is locked? Not that there will be anything inside that needs protecting. They sent a key with the letter a...

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“After Hours In The Library” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #91

The Library had been closed for hours.The librarian left for the day as soon as she had replaced all the books in their proper sections and shelves. Sometimes she wished the patrons would put books back where they had found them. At other times she used the books to log what was being read the most so she knew what to order in the future. Now nothing moved or made a sound in the small country library. The sun had finished setting leaving the library in complete darkness.  A pair of eyes shone as a car’s headlights briefly invaded the ...

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“The Misunderstood Bee” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #90

Jerome loves his bee hives. He works almost as diligently as the workers that stay busy all the time making sure the hive is full of honey and pollen while drones attend to the queen bee. Hives are very sociable places and the bees communicate so well it sometimes makes him jealous because humans do not communicate as well. He knows the main reason bees are so important is because they pollinate plants that are so vital to the survival of the plants. The plants are vital to the survival of all animals including humans. It breaks his heart ev...

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“The Month That Changed My Life” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #89

Friday night, Saturday and Sunday as well as every evening we drank. Friday after work, we stopped at the liquor store and stocked up for the weekend. Back then beer was still packaged in bottles by the twenty-four bottle case and we always bought a case. My husband bought a gallon of whisky and I usually chose a fifth of brandy and a fifth of vodka. Not that I especially liked vodka but no one could smell it on your breath so I could drink it and hide that I was drinking. By the time we went to bed on Sunday night there wasn’t a drop in the...

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“Two Lonely Girls” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #88

Prilla sat on her favorite mushroom with her legs drawn to her chest. Her gossamer white .dress hanging over the edge of her seat . Her long blonde hair glistened even in the dusky forest. Her forehead was bare of the fairy light  most of her family displayed. She was told hers would begin to display its light when she was a few years older. Her wings were now large enough to allow her to fly but they were just protrusions from her back. She missed her friend, Donella. They used to chase and play all through the woods but it had be...

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“Loki's Escape” by Scarlet Scribe

Submitted to Contest #87

Loki was bound to three rocks inside a cold, dark cave in the realm known as Asgard. No matter how he twisted and turned, the ropes kept him firmly in place under a monstrous serpent dripping venom. His devoted wife, Sigyn, was sitting by his side holding a bowl to catch the venom but when the bowl was full, she had to leave her vigil to empty it. As the venom touched Loki he writhed in agony causing earthquakes throughout Asgard. He had been sentenced to this excruciating existence until Ragnarök, the end of the wor...

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Author bio

I didn't start writing until 2003 then took a few years off when I was caring for my husband with dementia. Started back again after I lost him in 2019. Poetry is my favorite but also write flash fiction, short stories and have a couple of books in the works.