Tanya Stingley

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2021

Stories (5)

5 Stories

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“Road Trip” by Tanya Stingley

Submitted to Contest #99

Hurry up Braydon, Jesus you're slow! we're going to get stuck in rush hour traffic if you don't get a move on! Tara was ranting, rushing from room to room grabbing tee shirts and shorts and shoving them into her already overstuffed knapsack. it was a spur of the moment wild hair that had the two twenty-year-old’s rushing around giddy yet anxious to embark on the adventure of the moment, Karla,...

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“Erasing doubt” by Tanya Stingley

Submitted to Contest #95

TW: mention of child molestation You're ugly and no one is going to love you but me. Those words were branded onto Toni's heart, those words seemed to appear anytime Toni Had a decision to make. And now, before her was her future and the biggest decision of her life. Today was the day of reckoning, today Toni was going to leave her mark on the world. Just three months ago, Toni was discovered so to speak. She was showing some of her drawings and sketches at a community art fa...

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“Winter's dilemma” by Tanya Stingley

Submitted to Contest #86

Look ! shouted Winter, pointing to the meadow I told you the daffodils would be blooming! Winter tugged at Jacks leash and began jogging toward the field of freshly blooming flowers, the chill in the air seemed to have reinvigorated her senses, the sadness of the last three months seemed to fall away with every step she took closer to those beautiful yellow promises of spring, of renewal, of life. Wint...

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“ Afterworld” by Tanya Stingley

Submitted to Contest #84

What day is it? Sam stood triumphantly at the mouth of the cave. it had taken her hours to remove the remaining rocks that had kept her safe yet hidden from the outside world. All that she had known for the last year was buried up there, on Sawbuck ridge. It was almost spring when Me Ma, Jim bob and our old hound dog Rufus decided to hole up in the Sawbuck Ridge caves of Kentucky w...

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“Anxiously waiting” by Tanya Stingley

Submitted to Contest #81

It was three o'clock, Jasmine would be here any moment, Shay was more nervous now than when she asked her out. who even does Valentines Day anymore? its so cliché, checking her reflection in the mirror one last time and making certain there was no lipstick on her teeth. Shay inhaled deeply, winked at herself in the mirror and moved confidently to her apartment door. Jasmine was literally trembling with exciteme...

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Author bio

I am a poet and a writer, I enjoy words and painting pictures with them. I am thrice published.