Victoria Penny

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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“Beneath the Ancient Oak Tree” by Victoria Penny

Submitted to Contest #65

Beneath the Ancient Oak Tree by Victoria Penny As soon as darkness fell, the children were screaming. Gleefully they ran ahead of their parents to the next house with a porch light blazing, a pumpkin grinning menacingly on the doorstep. They would knock like a hammer on anvil, sing trick or treat like a choir and smile greedily as their bags bulged with the spoils of the night. She watched them all from the shadow of an ancient oak tree. These tiny beings gone wild. Made a game of spotting the store bought factory made costumes and t...

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“The Red Door” by Victoria Penny

Submitted to Contest #59

The Red Door by Victoria Penny Holly did not want to move. She was ten years old and had lived her whole life in the three bedroom house on Marigold Lane with Mum, Dad and her goldfish Gilbert. But now Dad was gone. One day Holly came home from school to find Mum crying and all Dad's stuff gone. Where they were moving wasn't even a house. It was a flat. There was no garden with a flower bed where she could watch the bees feeding in the summer, where she could kick a football. The flat had one bedroom, so Mum said they had to share. Whe...

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“Gleann Fala” by Victoria Penny

Submitted to Contest #59

Gleann Falaby Victoria PennyThe village wasn't on any map.Not in her old dusty atlas, or her roadmaps of Great Britain guide. She even tried a globe. No luck. And the internet wasn't much use either.It would have put most people off, but not Sarah Cartwright. It was exactly the fresh start she was looking for.She telephoned the number in the advertisement - three times before she got through, and even then the connection was so bad she could barely make out the voice on the other end. It was so distorted she couldn't tell if it was a man or ...

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“And We All Fall Back Down to Earth” by Victoria Penny

Submitted to Contest #58

And We All Fall Back Down to Earth by Victoria Penny 94 minutes of oxygen remaining Catastrophic systems failure. That's what they call it. That's why they put so many redundancies in place. But this is space and space is vast and unpredictable and no one, not even the most experienced and battle hardened astronauts, can prepare for it. That was the risk we took. For the unquenchable thirst for knowledge, for science's unanswered questions. For the good of humanity. We risked it all. We rose up like Gods, breaking the atmosphere, reaching ...

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Author bio

Scottish. Bi. She/her. I love sci-fi/fantasy, reading lots and playing video games. Sometimes I write.