Story Time

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

Stories (215)

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“A White Dress and a Red Apron” by Story Time

Submitted to Contest #60

She woke up the morning she put on the white dress and the red apron knowing that she would poison the Baked Alaska. On that day, we were about four feet high, but we’d be five or six feet by the end of the year. That’s if you believe the scientists, and, really, why wouldn’t you believe the scientists? They’ve been right about so much so far. But, you know, you hear people talking, and those people, the ones talking, they sometimes don’t believe the science, even though they are, at this point, and we mean this literally, knee-deep in t...

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“You've Had Your Fun” by Story Time

Submitted to Contest #59

Wake up in a bed with a red, red blanket. Check the room. Hotel? No. Nice--nice place. The red blanket is soft. The mirror across from you shows your hair properly mussed. You had a nice time, but you didn’t overdo it. Your eyes aren’t red. Your breath tastes of gin and chocolate. Your nails are getting long again, because you felt like quitting something, so you took down biting at them and you took up sleeping in the beds of strange men. Not so strange. A neighbor. A man named… Something Italian. Better said with an accent....

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“Three Minutes in the Dark” by Story Time

Submitted to Contest #58

She has three more minutes before she’ll need to move to the next stage of the evacuation plan, and she’s never rehearsed for that plan. That’s the plan that nobody talks about, because if you get to that part of the plan, you’re already looking at a full-scale desertion crisis, wherein a multi-billion dollar ship gets left out in the vast reaches of space while its crew makes their way in individual pods the size of coffins to stations that already under-staff and over-capacity at the very same time. She has three minutes before that ha...

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“And As For My Glass Eye Collection” by Story Time

Submitted to Contest #57

“...But she always liked that necklace, and so I’m happy to leave it to her. While her neck may not be anything worth drawing attention to, I would argue that anything covering the neck has been sorely needed for quite some time. Well, now that my daughter’s inheritance is accounted for, let’s move onto the one asset I know everyone in my family is clamoring for-- My glass eye collection. It’s value, when last I checked, was somewhere in the hundreds of thousands. Who knows? It could be millions now. Billions, perhaps. I tried not ...

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“Bingo” by Story Time

Submitted to Contest #56

We wanted to let her sit with us, but the extra folding chair would have required a substantial shift in the make-up of our bingo table. As is our preference, the table is kept to three and three with nobody on the ends, because the rules of the St. Alma Hall dictates that “no one may sit on either end of a table while a game is in session.” We don’t know who came up with the rule, and it certainly wasn’t us, but it’s there, and there’s no hemming about it, not that we’re hemmers anyhow. When Francine Elizabeth Martin approached the tabl...

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Author bio

Stories and a few more stories. Write something everyday.

Winning 3 stories 🏆

Contest #137
The Boy in the Pink Tuxedo – read story
Contest #134
The Hovering Age – read story
Contest #116
Straw, Sticks, and Brick – read story

Shortlisted 5 stories ⭐️

Contest #209
Goldilocks Returns – read story
Contest #142
Looking for Mr. Darcy – read story
Contest #101
Today The Phone Won't Ring – read story
Contest #99
Dracula in the Morning – read story
Contest #87
Regarding the Meat – read story