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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2021
Submitted to Contest #91
  Marlena searched for her favorite book, but couldn’t find it.”Weird, I put it there before.” Marlena thought. Then she saw a girl about her age holding her favorite book. The girl looked up from the book and smiled at Marlena. “Hi?” The girl said nervously. “Hi, is that book good?” Marlena asked. “Yeah, it’s really good.” She replied. “By the way, I’m Cara. The girl held out her hand. Marlena held Cara’s hand and shook it lightly. “And I'm Marlena.” She said. They sat down together and chatted about how the main character in the ...
 The popular cool girls in my school were the ones that ordered everyone in the school around. That was until someone stopped listening to them. I should know that because that person was no other person than me. I was trying to catch up with the group of girls. So I ran, but I tripped over a rock and fell. The girls turned around and laughed at me. Then I saw a little puppy that was muddy and dirty in space between their legs. It stumbled and tried to walk toward us, but fell in a mud puddle. The girls heard that and immediately turned...
    Marlena stood rooted in her spot next to a rusty pole while waiting for the train. She felt bad for the pole so she pulled out her little packet of wet wipes and began wiping the pole. Soon the wipe had a large hole in the middle and the pole was shiny with just a bit of rust at the bottom. “Good enough!” Marlena complimented herself. The train arrived with a loud, screeching noise that hurt Marlena’s ears. She saw it was the train she had to get on and immediately ran to get in the train before it filled up. She show...
I want to improve myself as writer so it would help if you maybe wrote what I should improve on my story in a comment. Thank you!!!
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