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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022
Submitted to Contest #163
TW: Suicide, violence, blood The candles’ flames flicker like the shimmer of stars as they stand in the middle of the table, they are situated either side of a bright bouquet of marigolds that drip life into the otherwise static atmosphere of the dinner, their light casting dancing shadows over the stone faces of Mother, Father and Rueben. There was a time when we weren’t so still, I remember when laughter – pure and true – rang out from deep within our bellies and the air was pregnant with desire for something more, a restlessness thrumming...
Submitted to Contest #155
TW: Death, implied animal crueltyThat day it rained in the park we hid from it in the little hut at the top of the slide. I had never seen rain before, only heard about it in Jamie’s stories, his stories never told of the noise rain could make falling on a surface – like the pounding steps of protestors as they run from law enforcement – or the wailing wind it sets loose on the world that makes everything tremble. I had always thought that I wouldn’t like rain much, Jamie described it as something that made your skin wet and slippery like th...
Submitted to Contest #144
What I remember is the pain and the cold, I remember the cold because it was so odd it startled me, that painful numbing sensation you get when playing with snow bare handed crawled up my body until I was engulfed by it. For a heartbeat, I felt nothing. I was not a part of my body or this world, I existed in the ‘somewhere’, the intangible place beyond our universe that people reference when they cannot express what exactly they mean by an afterlife, a term humans seem to innately understand. The pain was immediate, flooding my body like lig...
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