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Taylor Greny

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2022

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Fallen Angel

Taylor Greny

Submitted to Contest #190

I see her and my entire world falls out from underneath me. I’m going to kill them. I know that it’s her. I’ve spent hours with my fingers in her long honey curls. I’ve memorized the coordinates of the freckles on her collarbone and the dimples on her cheeks. I’ve tripped and sailed straight into those gray eyes more times than I can count. I’ve commited myself to the softness and fullness of her stomach and the way it moves when she laughs. I know that it’s her. But at the same time, it’s not. She’s sprawled across the ground, hair an...

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The Other Thing

Taylor Greny

Submitted to Contest #169

La dee da, dee da dee dum, ’tis autumn. Nat King Cole’s voice sang the same phrase over and over again in Oliver’s brain. Though it pissed him off to no end that he couldn’t remember any other part of the song, he drew some comfort from the melody. It was like a safety blanket as he walked through the crimson golden woods, returning home from school. The walk was always nerwracking. Oliver had to walk briskly. It was a two mile trek, and a dangerous one at that. Not because of bears or low hanging branches or holes in the ground.&nb...

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Due Payment

Taylor Greny

Submitted to Contest #159

That morning, Ivy’s alarm was the smell of cinnamon. Her nose, red from the air vent directly above her head, twitched and her dark eyes fluttered open. Sitting up, she felt her bones crack and crinkle. Her pale, freckled arms were creased all over from the blankets. She must’ve slept like a baby. After rubbing the sleep from her eyes with clenched fists, she looked around. Sabel’s room was something out of a fairytale. Ivy was used to her laundry littered studio apartment, and the sanctuary she was sat in now was the complete opposite. The ...

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Heaven in the Honeysuckle

Taylor Greny

Submitted to Contest #136

“I think I spent at least a quarter of my life here.” “Pfft, that’s not a lot, Axel.” “Twenty-two years old? You bet your ass a quarter of my life is a long time.” Jo chuckled and looked out onto the field. It was history, overgrown with weeds, the towering wire fences thick with honeysuckle and spidery green vines. Sad to look at really, like an abandoned building. But, she knew that it meant much more to Axel than it ever did to her. “Dad would bring me down here to practice even if we didn’t have a game coming up.” He snorted a...

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A Keepsake

Taylor Greny

Laurel lost her breath when she heard the news of her grandmother’s passing. She was off living her life—just a year out of university, the sweetness and freshness and newness of the world had not yet gone stale. She had gotten the most perfect little studio in the city, with ivy crawling along the fire escape and jasmine gathered at the window. She made it the perfect home for her and her goldfish, Kenickie, with paper star cutouts and pastel throw pillows. She worked as a waitress in the evening and commissioned paintings during the d...

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