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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021
Submitted to Contest #100
Carrie had trudged through the dark purple forest since the change in leadership in her town, Chester Hill. The sky was a tainted green and the grass was a sharp black. She thought of when Chester Hill was normal; people would go around, weaving cloth, sharing biscuits with new neighbors, and thatched the straw roofs on the cottages. Then Esmeralda became Queen. Esmeralda was a witch. In Chester Hill, the townsfolk believed witches had cloaks and brooms, warts and green skin. They were said to come from far away lands where elves and fairies...
Submitted to Contest #96
A long time ago, the stories of gods disguising as peasants asking for hospitality from a stranger was common. If they were rejected, the person rejecting the god would be punished. If they let the god in, they would be rewarded. This kept the greeks on their toes and always accepted a stranger in fear it was a god in disguise. After all, nobody wanted to be turned into an apricot for rejecting one. As time went on, though, some people forgot about those stories and firmly rejected strangers without a second thought. One of those people who ...
Submitted to Contest #87
Sophie's favorite saying is, Fool me once and shame on you, but fool me twice and shame on me. So on April Fools' day, she makes sure to prank her friends at least twice and leave her favorite saying on a note for them as she skips down the hallway and clicks her tongue. She decided to prank Hester in the morning, Anadil in the afternoon, and Dot at night. The night before, Sophie had planned and plotted on how to prank her friends from the start to the end. The next day, April Fools' Day, Sophie waited until Hester left her dorm room and st...
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