Stephanie Frank

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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“Acceptance is the New Normal” by Stephanie Frank

Submitted to Contest #59

My day started out all wrong. This was no ordinary day in Death City. Something different. I hesitated before descending my apartment steps. I looked out over the horizon, noting its greenish-black pallor. Its death stare. Its empty, aloof, and lonely presence. No dogs barked. No kids played. No horns honked. Nothing but extreme silence. I checked my watch: 6:23 a.m. I had exactly twenty minutes before the Heavens parted and the bowels of Hell unleashed torment upon our city. As if on cue, the sky lit up just long enough for me to see hund...

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“Little Red Riding Hood” by Stephanie Frank

Submitted to Contest #58

An icy chill crawled up my spine like thousands of tiny spiders as I stepped out of the cab. The cold New York wind nipped hungrily at my flesh and I grinned as a group of pre-teens ran screaming when they caught sight of me. The oldest -- a girl wearing a pointy black hat, a long black robe and pointy black shoes -- clung to her young sister's hand as she pulled her along the crowded sidewalk and through the throngs of people, the small child preoccupied only with the candy inside her pumpkin-shaped pail. I couldn't help but smile knowing...

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