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Aiyana Henderson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

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The Origin Debaters

Weekly Contest #98

Jennifer was rolling her eyes again at her family arguing once again at Thanksgiving.It was the same old story.Her mother and grandmother were technically the culprits at hand here.It started on the magical date of January 17, 1984, exactly two years before Jennifer was born. Scratch that. That was her birthday. It was actually two years, three days, and seven hours before the only child had been born. So technically speaking, the date was January 14, 1982 at the time of 10:32 pm.January 14, 1982 was the infamous date that allowed her loved ...

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Leave This Town

Weekly Contest #94

My only defense was to write down every word they said. There was no way in hell that I was going to let anyone in town gaslight me. I was always getting into all sorts of trouble because of Brookline's horrible scandals. My name is Corinna Sylvia Gardner, but everyone around the Worchester area calls me “The Wild One.” Corinna isn’t my real name; it’s Margaret. I legally changed it to Corinna so that I would become more badass. I guess that is one of the benefits about having a birthday before summer arrives.It was almost as if I needed tro...

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You Have To Be Cruel To Be Kind

Weekly Contest #91

Charlotte ate green peppers all day long. Both Joy and Greta stared and openly groaned at her in disgust. There she went again in the cafeteria, treating the joy of the spiciest food in the world like it was an ice cream sundae that had come to life. On days like these, Joy Conwell could literally groan out loud. If she didn't want to flunk AP Calculus, she had to get her sorry ass to the library as fast she should say Taco Tuesday. It was definitely more entertaining than someone whose idea of fun was eating a horrible vegetable.Both o...

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Amicus Curiae

Weekly Contest #87

"There is this constant belief in the courtroom that anyone who is able to serve justice is a hero. But the reality is that we're not supposed to be the superheroes. The heroes are the people who support our clients outside of the courtroom. That doesn't mean it has to stop there. We will always be known as the amicus curiae." That was the most gratifying speech that my now-fiancé, Marianne Clint, had made towards me on the first day of our legal briefings. I never even stopped thinking about that Latin phrase. Out of all the phrases in l...

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City Living

Weekly Contest #85

March 14th, 2020. That was the date that he had written down. He had repeated that date over 100,000 times. It was the date that marked the beginning of the end. 2021 was that year the whole insanity of it all was too much for Michael Seong. He thought 2016 was the roughest year in the 21st century, but 2020? It was a great contender for the bullshit that occurred in his life. At least, all of the life that occurred in his room. When the pandemic had occurred, his first instinct was to haul ass and not get the Coronavirus within the perimete...

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Complications

Weekly Contest #83

With a slump of her shoulders, Carol Jennifer Hardwin picked up her luggage and started to walk towards the front desk. Today was the day. She was finally going to have a hotel suite all to herself. There was no need for her to work in her processing job. The supervisor, Ida Mae Wahlberg, was a pretentious woman, and Carol did not use that word lightly. Her threatening, forest green, chipped, manicured nails were exhausting to look at; not to mention the fact that Carol was always insecure about how her nail buds hadn’t been done in a salon ...

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Are You My Friend?

Weekly Contest #82

The ringing set off in my ears. My owner’s alarm was a massive hassle of sounding off. From the point of view of my limited screen, I discover that they haven’t touched me yet. That’s good. Maybe they will take time to go outside, or use me as an app to keep track of how much weight they lost… Oh, never mind! Here they are turning on that godawful show Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Go ahead, Catherine. Your mother would give you that condescending tone that you despise, “Oh Cathy bear, why would you do this to yourself?” I should know. My...

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The Quirky Date

In the day and age of 2021, a plethora of dating options is likely to overwhelm the modern millennial. You had the hook up crowd of Hinge and Tinder, depending on your preferences, and then you had the more “relationship-friendly” apps of eHarmony and Bumble. Hinge was notorious for gay men, so that opted her out of the list of potentials that could bang her. Not that having sex on the first date was beneath Kiley Matthews, but she wanted to treat sex as the final home run. She wasn’t going to give a hand job within the first five dates; it ...

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Beyond Control

Weekly Contest #80

Beyond Control Larry was standing in front of the entire crowd. He was never a person who found anything appealing about having massive eyes staring at your fragile figure. He was a science teacher, and not a well-paid one at that. The water that was filled by the frenetic secretary, Carol Walburg, continued to remain untouched. The last thing Larry even needed to think about right now was using the men’s restroom. Teaching middle school students about the vast wonders of the solar system was his comfort zone, his modus operandi, and his ...

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