Shelby Elaine

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2020

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“My Fawcett Runneth Over” by Shelby Elaine

Submitted to Contest #67

The year is 3015 on a planet on the outer edge of the Zaxan’Thiar-511 galaxy known as Cradus 216B. July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins successfully completed Apollo 11 and immediately the voyage had doubters. Persons who were unconvinced that the travelers were successful in traversing the 238,900 miles to Luna. As if that was some impossible feat. Claiming N.A.S.A had concocted this fraudulent odyssey across the vacuum that is space. Claiming that we’d never actually landed there. Well, they never landed there...

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“Annual” by Shelby Elaine

Submitted to Contest #65

We begin our day like every other parent on the block. We wake up in the morning and dress our children in their desired persona for the day, and feed them breakfast. We will spend the day tirelessly explaining that we have to wait until the sunsets below the horizon, because the candy taste better knowing it has been acquired beneath the cloak of darkness alongside various astronaut princesses, zombies Batman’s, and roaming spirits on the way to visit members of family for their yearly tryst. Our sons and daughters are not unlike yours in t...

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