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Spruce Popsicle

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022

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The Jabberwock Hunt

This story is inspired by Lewis Carroll's poem 'Jabberwocky,' originally published in 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.' His imaginative creation serves as the foundation for this adaptation.***‘Twas the harvest festival, and all the people of Heathenridge celebrated. The youngest citizens ran and galavanted about the town square, while the elders spoke and sang old melodies; forgotten by all but them. In the middle of those groups were the young-ish girls and boys, who, with their friends, got up to all types of mad mi...

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Pigeons make great Wingmen

Sometimes, bad days can turn out to be the starts of amazing weeks. Riley learned this the hard way.  Her day started off with the worst tragedy of all: sleeping through her alarm. Although she worked from home, she still had meetings to attend. So there she was. With bed-head, un-showered, coffeless, and making very important business decisions. As one can imagine, there was no way she had her video on during that zoom meeting. After that, she went to take a shower, but the water simply refused to become warm. She resorted to a cold s...

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A journey to Satisfaction

Alex’s grandmother was an interesting character to say the least. Her house was furnished with strangely patterned furniture. She would always wear gigantic jewelry: large hoop earrings, chunky rings, low hanging necklaces, and wide bracelets. It wasn’t a surprise, then, when she found a bracelet with strange writings on it. Alex, over the years, had gained a respect and love for her grandma, and as such began to like her accessory choices. The bracelet itself was a dark shade of forest green with the writing etched in gold. Her parents told...

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Projects within Projects

When a teacher tells me that we’re doing a group project, I don’t immediately groan in disgust. However, when Mr. Howard told the science class the groups, I wanted to transfer Mrs. Else’s class, which is infamous for being very boring. Mr. Howard, that sick, sick man made me in a group with Jamie Lovegreen, Alivia Mirror, and Jacob Taylor. That was the worst news I’d heard since Grant Imahara died. Like any good 2010’s movie, there were the stereotypes of the jock, the nerd, the popular one, and the shy one. Mr. Howard decided to put a...

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A Love Song

“Hurry up, Casey, you’ll make us late,” my sister, Emilia shouts up the stairs. “I’m coming, I’m coming!” I shout back.“If you’re not ready in five minutes, I’m leaving without you!” She replies stormily.I groan, knowing very well she wouldn’t. I’m the older sibling, and she doesn’t know the way to the palace. I do.I look at myself in the mirror. I have an unbuttoned dress shirt on and some dress pants. The invitation called for an over-the-top outfit. I need to make this over the top. I pull on a blue blazer, and enchant my h...

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Photos and Firearms

Nora lines up the camera to capture the meadowlark into the fragile world of her photography. When she hears the click-click of the camera taking the pictures that are now her lively hood, she begins to hear a different type of click. A familiar, but still more dangerous sound. The clicks become overpowering. She can only hear them. Then she begins to see…Click-click. Click click click.“He’s dead, boss. You can stop now.” A voice behind her said.“I don’t care. They still killed her. They need to stop! They need to suffer!” Nora’s explosive v...

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Creatures and Kidnappings

“Come on, Elli! We need to go check the fairy village! We need to go!” Darlina tugged on my arm, pulling me towards the back door and out into our backyard. Even though I didn’t want to go outside- there was a storm on the horizon- I was no match for her puppy eyes.“Okay, okay. Let me go. I’m coming.” I pulled on my shoes and followed my little sister outside, calling to my parents: “Mom! Darli and I are going outside for the Fairy garden.”I heard a muffled agreement and stood in the cold fall air. On our small wooden porch, I could see my o...

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Soulmates and Trees

Jeremy had a basic life. In elementary he fit in, nothing special about him. But once he got in middle school, everyone started developing crushes or started dating people. What about Jeremy? Never had a single crush. Many friends yes, but never anything further. He started having this strange fixation with the concept of romance and love. He asked all his friends with crushes or partners how they knew. He wanted to know what it felt like to ‘be in love.’ His friends were all patient with him, and described to him how they felt. He coul...

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Through the the Window

Asher Littlefield lived a pretty normal life. He was a junior in high school. He didn’t have a girlfriend, but he had friends. He wasn’t the most popular person in school, but he was known. After you hear that, then answer me this: Why was he the victim of a serial killing?I know you may not be able to believe me, but let me explain. This time from the beginning.On November 3rd, Asher still had Halloween candy to eat. Even as a Junior, Asher still enjoyed Halloween. He loved dressing up and having fun with his friends. One night, after finis...

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The Sower

When Alex was selected, he didn’t know what to think. The ceremony of gifts is such a big deal, yet he was given something he didn’t know about. Almost everyone he knew that has gotten a gift has been something common. For example, Katy got to be a teacher. Alicia was selected to be a caretaker. But when Alex was selected to be the Sower, he didn’t know what to think. He has never heard of such a thing.On the day of the ceremony, he was expecting to be assigned something like chef, or perhaps a teacher. But no, when he was called up to the s...

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Light Chasing

Submitted to Contest #138

“Write about light returning to a place that has been deprived of it for a long time” Light Chasing I can still remember the day the light left. I was four years old. I was in the small oak tree in my back yard, holding onto my children’s book, flipping through the pages and looking at the pictures. I was too young to read yet, but I remember loving the pictures and trying to figure out the story. Then the shadow came, swallowing the great Aonani. Her light slowly left our town, then it was black. The screams started soon after. Today is...

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