Tanya Humphreys - Writer on Reedsy Prompts

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Rabbit's Totem

Submitted to Contest #89

We had been four great friends- four young rabbits who’d known each other since we had first opened our eyes and grown fur. Now there was just us three. We foraged together, played together and talked about girl rabbits. We now wept together as well. Sam is the biggest of us. His thick coat was a rich chocolate brown that matched his soulful eyes, his big flop ears and tail tipped in black as if dipped in an ink pot. The ladies did swoon when he looked their way. I am Seth, my twin’s name was Robbi...

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The Prince Frog's Helmet

Tanya Humphreys

TW TW: violence, gore The Prince Frog’s Helmet The Prince of Frogs was not always called a prince. He had earned that title by being brave and quick-thinking…This is his story… Ernesto the frog lived in a moat. The moat surrounded an immense castle. This majestic castle, somewhere in France long ago, had a heavy wooden drawbridge, a front gate twenty feet tall, and battlements encircling each of its four stories. This castle had four five-hundred-foot towers, each one pointing out the directions of east, west, no...

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April Fool the Cat

Tanya Humphreys

Submitted to Contest #87

April stalked the village streets by night and early morning, her ebony coat made her all but invisible. You only saw her when her eyes glowed in ambient light. Or when she was up to no good. The closer it got to midnight, the stronger her powers became. On this particular night of March 31st, April padded carefully along the top of a fence, picking her way along like a wicked black ballerina. When she smiled, her deadly canines shone in the moonlight. Her long snakelike tail twitched at the tip, acting as her rudde...

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Author bio

I never graduated high school. My education is one of street smarts and a love of literature and creating art.

I started out illustrating children's books while working as a rural county mail carrier.
My first children's book comes out May 21st, illustrated and written by me under a pseudonym.
I write Reedsy stories as often as I can because Stephen King says to be a writer you must write every day.

Every one of my stories is structured traditionally: protagonist faces a dilemma or quest, the plot is the main body, and the ending often twists away with the reader's imagination, with or without an element of horror, my favorite genre.