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Submitted by writers on Reedsy Prompts to our weekly writing contest. Being one of the most popular genres among the submissions to our weekly contest, the drama short stories collected below include riveting works you won’t want to miss.

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Marmalade

Submitted to Contest #57

My great-great-great Nana Beatrice was always too busy filling her sweets in jars instead of her marriage (so the story goes). Her father had an envious orchard of peach trees and there was nothing she loved more than preserving them in a jam. Why should we only get to enjoy the sweet things for one season? She’d say, so she made a way to have the sweet things all seasons. Everybody loved her jam, it was the sweetest thing for miles – ambrosia they had christened it, for surely it was made for the gods. Everybody loved her peach jam, except ...

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Lady of the Manor

Submitted to Contest #57

“ENOUGH!” Time may have stripped the power from his body, but not his words. He would be heard. “If you ask me if I’m sure one more time, I’ll use another solicitor’s office and you’ll lose your fee as my executor!” Arthur knew how to motivate men; he’d made his living out of knowing, and for this man it was money. It always was with lawyers. “My apologies sir, I have a legal obligation to –” then the lawyer stopped himself in time, before saying ‘ensure’. Arthur held the eyes of the lawyer in silence; a silence he intended to make as unc...

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Time Jumping Joel

Submitted to Contest #57

At last! After years of hard work, Joel had finally perfected his time machine. He knew not what awaited him nor was he fully prepared for what he would see.  At this time, he was consumed by excitement and a desire for knowledge of something that no man has ever gained before. Surely, this would set him apart. Surely, he would be revered this time. Maybe instead of being the local mad-scientist, he would live in infamy as a brilliant doctor. Dr. McKinstry, the history books would write, founder of the...

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The Final Word of Yellow Roses

Submitted to Contest #57

His job was boring. Paid well, but boring. But sometimes the people could be interesting. He peeked out at the waiting room at his 3 pm appointment. She was early, arrived at 2:25 pm.             She wasn’t much. His receptionist said she had been almost impossible to hear on the phone.              Her clothes were wrong. Borrowed, maybe, but no, they seemed too new. Stiff,...

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Unintended Fire

Submitted to Contest #58

I sat in the back seat of the police officer's car, and knew what I had done had been right, but had severely hurt the person I had been trying to protect. It was all I could do to make sure that Keisha got away. I knew she was excited by the fact that her virginity might be taken tonight, but I wasn't going to let that happen. I wanted to protect her, but I had been her best friend since fifth grade, and she wouldn't see it that way. I wanted her to be happy, but I knew someone stealing her virginity in a one night stand at the Homecomi...

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Where There's a Will...

Submitted to Contest #57

Where there’s a will, there’s a way to get your way at last. Say that five times fast. No, seriously, I am here to share my last will and testament with you. I have taken a back seat to folks far too often, especially in my later years. Now it’s my turn to talk (so to speak, since technically if you’re reading this I am underground and will not be actually talking any time soon). Don’t worry, I will spare you all the legal language and just cut to the chase. Besides, I don’t really have a lot, so my will is going to be short and sweet. ...

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His Last Wishes

Submitted to Contest #57

A familiar madness stirred within. He tried to suffocate it using his starving eyes to search the room for distraction, for solace. The space had drastically expanded it’s aura of empty material weight. Out cycled a heavy sigh and he went back to crumpling up the sheets where the ink left unpleasant splotches. The kinds of decisions that were about to be made intimidated him perhaps more than death itself. Even wasting paper had given him an unfamiliar guilt because of the outrageous costs nowadays, though he could afford thousands of sheets...

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A Risk Worth Taking

Submitted to Contest #57

The black limousine pulled out of the spacious driveway, turning on to Sunstone Avenue. Inside were four people: The driver, Mr. Blackwell, and his wife and daughter. From the outside, they were a rich and happy family. But in truth, there was no love between them. Mr. Blackwell might have been incredibly rich, but as the saying goes, “Money can’t buy happiness.” The family was currently headed to a big party for Olivea Madden’s graduation. The Maddens had been family friends of the Blackwells for years. They had money as well, because as Mr...

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The love that stole my insanity

Submitted to Contest #58

“I’m sorry Mike I don’t love you anymore.” Did I do something wrong? Was I too relax with my freedom? Those are the questions I asked my self as begain to realiz. She dumped me... Breathing became difficult as my brain grasped for strains of reality hopelessly putting them together. My now ex girlfriend was the most perfect person. After her choice to leave me I began to numbly walk through life. Work then home, That’s all I could do to keep from going to her. Days passed of starting idle at the television set. Chewing my thumb nail...

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A Waiting Game

Submitted to Contest #58

We're drifting. We've been drifting for a long time - that's how we save fuel and energy, especially if we don't have any specific destination, but it seems our conservation efforts haven't been enough because Rust is telling everyone not to panic and saying that we'll all be fine if we just remain calm. Outside, a scattering of stars is reflected in my glasses - a thousand globes of fiery plasma hanging in an ice cold vacuum. There's silence out there - silence and peace and darkness and a surprising amount of dust. Space isn't as clean as ...

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Bloodlines

Submitted to Contest #57

It was a May 3rd same as any May 3rd I had known in my 13 years. I had begged Mother to let me go to school, to be normal. I had even faked an oral report to try and get out of it, but Mother insisted she had already gotten this and every May 3rd cleared with the school board. She always got what she wanted. “I just don’t even know why we have to go see Gerry. We just saw him last year, I’m sure he’s not gotten around to much in the penin-- pentent-- in jail.” Mother glanced at me, mostly side-eye, not wanting to give me the ...

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In a Flash

Submitted to Contest #57

“Escaping again, Zohra?” Sunny Gehlot called out to me as I almost closed the door behind. It was my mother’s memorial service and I was determined not to stay. He wasn’t entirely wrong, this was my last attempt at finding some peace away from the clicks, the microphones and the media ruckus that accompanied my mother, Purvi Mistry. Instead, I swivelled about and thrust the door open, reentering the usually empty house, which teemed with staffers dressed in white. Good children do not talk back.My mother popped up in my head as usual.&n...

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Inside The Looking Glass (The New Girl Part 2)

Submitted to Contest #57

Melanie quietly shut the door to her room and gripped the frame, hands shaking nervously. She had just killed someone.  You did the right thing. No, you did a terrible thing. You had a good reason. That wasn’t a good enough motive. “Shut up, both of you.”  Her thoughts went to their respective corners silently.  She relaxed, leaning against the door, but instantly regretted it as she saw Dani’s innocent blue eyes, thick dark hair, the weight of her body slumping against her after she slit her throat. Melanie shuddered. ...

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A Moment In The Spotlight

Submitted to Contest #57

It all started one Tuesday morning, my alarm went off at 7:30 am, the sun was rising up high in the sky as I slid out of bed. Suddenly, I realized that my phone was blowing up with notifications from every social media platform! Oh my gosh, did I accidentally post something embarrassing on my Instagram page!? Phew, it wasn’t that. I was getting millions of comments saying “I love your music”, “when are you coming out with your next album” or “you're such a great singer!” all my pictures on my social media pages had over a million likes on ev...

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Brett Brown is a Bully and a Bastard

Submitted to Contest #58

Brody Speroni stood fidgeting with the satchel he shouldered as he stood in front of the class with his new teacher Miss Sewell introducing him. Once the introductions were over and with a dry mouth he was forced to say something about himself he was shown to his seat in a cluster of tables with some other students.     The sixteen-year-old got out his Braille machine so that he could take down notes from the board. He heard the whispers from the group something, of which he should be used to by now, as he placed it on th...

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