Tomikah Morrell

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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“Anniversary at the Carnival ” by Tomikah Morrell

Submitted to Contest #93

“If you change one aspect of a situation in a time of fear, it will almost immediately become less scary”. That’s what my father used to tell me when I was young. The first time I remember him telling me this I was six years old. It was sometime in the night and I couldn’t go to sleep because I was convinced that the jacket hanging in my closet was being worn by a tall thin man. That he wasn’t really a man at all but just close enough that my limited vocabulary couldn’t think of anything else to call him. I laid awake and created a story f...

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“The Woman Who Haunts Me” by Tomikah Morrell

Submitted to Contest #74

When I first came here, I was shocked by the lack of light. My handler brought me into the cellar of a dingy building and my first thought was that it seemed dark, with only one lightbulb in a lampshade so coated in dust the light barely shone through. It was enough though, much more than I have now. I could make out basic shapes in the room and details on the cellar walls closer to the lamp. I could also see the material that was binding my wrists together. Until I saw it in the light, I just assumed it was metal because the bands and chain...

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