Tara Piper

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2024

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“The Cycle” by Tara Piper

Submitted to Contest #280

"Are you ready to see me love someone else?" "What does that matter?""Are you ready to watch me leave this house, move on from you, and fall in love with someone else? Are you ready to see me live my life without you in it?""I'm not breaking up with you because I don't love you.""Answer the question Damien. I want you to answer the question.""I don't want to think about you loving someone else, but I can't be with you right now, and if you choose to move on from me and love someone else then I can't stop you from doing so." "You could stop m...

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“The Traveling Inspector” by Tara Piper

Submitted to Contest #279

I never thought of my situation as lost. It's not like I'm playing hide and seek. The whole precedent of being lost is someone searching for you, or I suppose you could be searching for yourself. I'm doing neither. Nobody is looking for me, and I'm not looking for anybody, some introspection is going on, sure, but I'm not one of those cringe millennial woman who fall off the face of the earth to "find themselves". You know, the ones who delete their six hundred follower instagram count to "get some space", only to make a new account three ...

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“Asteroid Bailey” by Tara Piper

Submitted to Contest #279

Breaking News The direction of Asteroid Bailey has changed course dramatically, now predicted to land within the United States of America at 4:35 PM Monday October 23rd. I could still hear the news announcement replaying within my mind as if my TV wasn’t tragically demolished within my old home. I heard the words of the late night news reporter--terrified and serious, with an undertone of a millennial savior complex. A woman who undoubtedly believed she would survive the world-ending asteroid. As it turned out, nobody had survi...

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