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Amanda Thompson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2020

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The Hoarder

The ice is melting much too quickly in this warming apartment. Every water I have put into the freezer has melted within an hour of retrieving it, which is not ideal. "But Cam," you might say, "isn't it a good thing for your ice to melt into the water you're going to drink?" No, actually. I prefer my water frozen. I prefer it cold. This is one of several things upsetting me recently. Of course, maybe more pressing, is the fact that I have moved thirteen hours away from my childhood home in Georgia, further north than I have ever been b...

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Childish Things

Submitted to Contest #29

The December air stings my hands and bare knees, icy pain crawling up my body like a vine up a tree. I kick up some of the fallen leaves and watch as they flutter back to the ground in a tattered mix of browns and reds. The glow of sunset bathes the world in a sheen of warmth despite the cold and reflects on the stream’s surface beside me.I’m turning eighteen tomorrow. No one will notice. I can’t blame them. Lucas is coming home tomorrow, and that’s quite the big deal.I don’t want to think about it. I crouch and twirl a leaf stem between my ...

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