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Summer Austin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2023

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Fortitude and Strength

Hello, I said to him as I opened the door without knocking and he looked at me. I was expecting you, he said and then I looked at the floor at his socks and they were red. And I said, who is wearing red socks and wonder what that meant and so then I figured it out. And it was that my friend whose favorite color was red was over at his house and I wonder that I went to the next house and my friend also was there every house. I went my friend was there. It was like a hot potato toss. So anyway, then I said I got really get out of here. So I to...

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China Town on the Hill

Submitted to Contest #300

The plane landed and I found my way to the train station and took the bullet train up to my mountain top and there. I stayed for the next 15 years. My fantasy coming to what I had always believed in dreamland and it was just to have a remote cabin on the hill in China and the cabin on the countryside with my animals and plants around me. My garden sustaining me and I played the flute. This would go on and on and I. Redecorated my house and I cook meals from the herbs in the garden and salad from the lettuce and the tomatoes and the onions in...

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Transitional Home

Submitted to Contest #300

Let me say this right how I remember it so I was in the hospital and I just given birth to a daughter who was adopted soon after to someone who lived in Tennessee a sister of one of my dad's my parents' friends so I had said goodbye it was hard at the nursery at the birthing place in the hospital but I just walked out and left her there and I will forever remember that moment it was sad but they do keep in touch so I was in the hospital pregnant and I was in this house and the point of the story is not that I was pregnant in the hospital or ...

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Brainstorm

Hello, my name is Peg and I have a lot to say because there is an infinite amount of possibilities and I am doing just that, trying to reinvent myself as the prompt says, so now that I have made my way into a relationship, a house, a neighborhood, a community, a career, Education, family bonds, program, money, Financial stability, and Independence now where do I go from here? This is the second half of my life and it seems like I have a lot of freedom, but not necessarily a lot of time. So what I have established as a business is paintings, ...

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It's About Time

"What time is it," I asked the first person I saw as I headed out the door. He just looked at his watch and then kept looking; I guess the clock the hands had stopped working. He said, "Oh, I don't know, I really don't know," and then I remembered a song that said, "Does anyone really know what time it is, does anyone really care?", because it's just like a bunch of energy balls with light going around, Spheres and gas giants and the Sun and the Moon and the Earth and we're just going round and round evolving, I mean what else is there but s...

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Eggs in A Basket

Submitted to Contest #296

Hi this is Summer Austin ready to write an original story hopefully my mind is not filled with other things that I've read so that I don't copy anyone else's ideas.I have in my mind a story my daughter wrote but I am not going to say anything because I don't know what she would approve of.I will write instead a Easter story about what happened when we were younger with we got Easter baskets that were hidden from us at our step parents parents house or step-grandparents and we would go look around the house and find it in the bathtub or behin...

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Interstellar Space

I came into the room and everyone was seated except for a few that were still standing near the wall in the back and they were peering from thier spectacles, expectant and waiting I took the podium and cleared my throat and then went into a rant over how we should have our social security and our Medicaid and we should have peace with our neighboring countries and our allies and not be at war with them and not make war with anyone and our country was falling behind on the standards that we all had expected it to uphold but and even across se...

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Why Me?

'When are they going to let me speak?' I sat there, dumbfounded, as my friend and my boss ganged up on me in the front seats of the car, (I was in the back), talking over me every time I said something, and not listening to a word.Who did they think they were? Are they blatant woman - haters? Should I give up or keep trying. The chatter went on and I fell silent, frustrated.I thought these people actually liked me. I guess I'm just a dumb 'woman', not worthy of paying any attention to by these elite 'men' who evidently had no part of being b...

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Slow as A Snail

There was a snail, and he was setting off for a long journey, he had to make sure he had everything in his sac, a pen and paper to jot down notes, and record, a drink of juice- box, a sandwich, oh, and there was one other thing..So he set off to his grandma's, it was a long way down the road, and he had a long way to go, do he started early, at dawn and grabbed his coat and things, and said to himself, 'let's go!' :)The way was long, but he knew the route, and a couple shortcuts, in case he got waylaid, (or there was any imminent danger. You...

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A Blue Reality

Submitted to Contest #292

'Colorland', the banner read across the top of the building at hand.We were set to ride the elevator up to the roof top, all 74 of us, and we had tickets. There was only one problem, the guide was supposed to meet us out here, and was not showing up. The doors were locked, and it was very cold.We milled about, in our scarves hats gloves and boots, winter coats around. Greta said we should choreograph a dance to meet our tardy guide."Ah, there you are!", she finally walked through the door. "I've been looking all over..."Our school teacher in...

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On the Bridge of Time

Submitted to Contest #291

"Gordy, can you please come help us with this?" I hear from the back room. They are calling for me to help them with the huge pumpkin that sits on the table in the rec room, too big for these weaklings.I grumble, and grudgingly get up, and trudge over with my too big overalls trailing on the floor and scuffling every time I took a step."Boy, look who finally got up," the recreation therapist teased, and pointed to the huge pumpkin, gnarled and not far from beginning to rot."Ok, where do you want it?" I picked it up and it slipped out of my f...

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My Own New Town

Submitted to Contest #290

I wanted to get out of here, as fast as I can, and start a new Life, but.."Hey, June," I heard as a man walked in the room."Mm?" I looked up from tying my bootstrings, frantically pulling tight the knot and grabbing my knapsack and coat and keys. I took one manic last look at him, and lunged toward the door before he could stop me. I unlocked it, but..I felt the hands around my waist. "Where do you think you're going," he breathed in my ear. I wrestled with him, practically hitting him in the face. "I have to get to my grandmother's house. I...

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Hip Hop Entity

Submitted to Contest #289

"Rock on!" I yelled out, at the paraders. They just continued to toot their tubas and bang their drums down the street, unphased by me. The crowd was cheering wildly. This St. Patrick's day was quite vibrant, green leprechaun hats and streamers to go around, people even little kids having fun and waving their streamers.Someone said ," Look!" and pointed. I looked and their was a parade float, with SpongeBob. "Oh, god," I muttered. I went down the street looking for a hot dog stand. "Hey, Summer," they called. I looked and my old friend Wayne...

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Matrimony by the River

Submitted to Contest #287

"I don't know what time it is," I whined; "How many times are ya gonna ask me?""Until I get an answer, that's how many," my dad yelped."Well there's a clock over there," I pointed at the wall."Yea, so?""So what?""Are ya.....""No I'm not gonna go look, and I've had enough!" I walked out of the little garden patio to the café and headed home. "I don't understand these people," I thought to myself."Like, he wanted me to leave," I surmised. "Anyway,"..Talking to myself got pretty boring so I went to my friend Gary's house, and we watched TV. His...

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Nobody Knows Me

Submitted to Contest #286

"Bitch!" I slammed the receiver down hard. I was not going to make the train. Grabbing my coat, I ran out the door. My mom would not drive me to the train station so I'd have to take the bus.All along, I knew the truth. It made me sad but I had no choice but to move on. Behind my back, all this time. Boy I was delusional and they hid it well.New horizons were in my future, though, and that made me happy. Whew, finally done. After 3 years of filth, I was free. Now I was climbing into the bus with my knapsack, containing my phone and my wallet...

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