reedsymarketplace
Hire professionals for your project
reedsyblog
Advice, insights and news
reedsylearning
Online publishing courses
reedsylive
Free publishing webinars
reedsydiscovery
Launch your book in style
Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2024
Submitted to Contest #302
Carla slouched comfortably in her thread-bare khaki suspenders with the frayed edges cut ages ago because of the threat of outgrowing them. She slurped the last vestiges of her strawberry milkshake happily as she tapped her Doc Marten-clad foot to Pink Pony Club.Her mother entered the room.Carla didn’t notice. Her eyes were closed and the chorus was filling her ears. God, what have you done? You’re a Pink Pony girl and you dance at the club…“Carla, sit up,” her mother swatted her leg.Her eyes popped open and she looked up into her mother’s w...
Submitted to Contest #278
She took out the pill. The one that she had been holding onto for the past eight months. Somehow, she had managed to keep it safe, dry and relatively clean, this whole time. The blister pack was smushed, the silver backing was fraying but it still held. It helped that she had it in a small green pill bottle that she hid in her filthy, hole-y brassiere. She had a bottle of water, it was tap water, but it really didn’t matter, did it? And, she had a small bottle of vodka. She was trying to figure out which would be the better chaser.A loud bra...
Submitted to Contest #277
That blasted thing. There never seemed to be an end to the search for it. I sighed. She had lost it nearly four decades ago, yet still I hunted for it like a golden eagle seeking indefensible prey. I remembered it well. She wore it infrequently. The most common place for it was on the dresser, atop the mirrored vanity tray brought from who knows where. I was too young to know that particular thing’s origin story. For that matter, I was too young to have such a singular focus on something that was surely gone forever… I sank deeper into the ...
Oops, you need an account for that!
Log in with your social account:
Or enter your email:
15 likes
