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Amber Gustafson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2024

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Travel Lightly in My Heart

Submitted to Contest #324

Rae stared out at the Ouachita River, searching the roiling water for a sign. The river was normally a half mile from her doorstep but today it was here, crossing over the threshold and coming right up to the roof where she sat.Asphalt shingles get so hot in the August sun. It’s hard to believe how hot they can get, actually. Rae carefully adjusted her sitting position on the corner of the roof of her house, looking for a way to keep the blistering heat from seeping through her black gym shorts. Her shoes were long gone. So were all her phot...

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Crushed

I was so surprised when I got the doll for Christmas. I hadn’t asked for a china doll. It wasn’t really the kind of thing that I was interested in. I was 12 and I was beginning to lose interest in dolls in general but a fussy china doll in 1800’s garb gave me strange mixed emotions. She seemed kind of precious. She was, after all, made of porcelain. And unlike a Barbie or a Cabbage Patch Doll, she seemed like something meant to be admired and saved rather than played with. Which meant that she was for grown girls and not little kids. So I pu...

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