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Allicyn Herringdine

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2021

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Her

I'd give anything to run away with her. Anything to see her hair blowing in the wind on a beach in Hawaii, not a care in the world. I'd throw away my seven figure job, every pair of designer shoes, this big fancy penthouse for a one way ticket to be with her. She has no cares... she lets nothing get to her. The clear water runs over her feet daily and she lifts her hands to the sky and thanks the universe it blessed her with another day. She is free, beautiful, sunkissed and natural. No makeup needed, no thoughts of vanity on her mind. She w...

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Winter Ember

Submitted to Contest #122

The holidays... ugh. The whole season came crashing down on me like a mountain of clothes in a packed up inherited storage unit, leaving me helpless and trapped. Struggling under a mass of responsibility and inability. Life had been that way for a while now, I guess that's not a feeling i can blame solely on the holidays. I lay here, helpless, motionless, watching. My daughter was turning two, I was watching her spin circles around me and blossom into a curly headed toddler. There was a missing ring on the curtain rod letting just a ray of ...

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