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Angela Ewing

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2024

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THE BRIDGE

Weekly Contest #341

2864 WordsTHE BRIDGE I was the only one on the bus to Foxby, a village on the outskirts of a large city in England. I wasn’t sure why I was coming back at all after forty-odd years. There was nothing left for me here.The bus sped along Main Street and lurched to a stop in front of the Bull's Head Inn. "Last stop," the driver said. I stepped off the bus onto the wet pavement. Brakes hissed, and the doors rumbled shut behind me.I stood for a moment to watch the bus turn around by the old school, a low brick, U-shaped building, with iron railin...

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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Weekly Contest #307

MISSION ACCOMPLISHEDDear reader, let us suppose, for the sake of this story, that Gaia, mother nature, is not a Greek Goddess, but a mortal, a modern woman, who is nurturing, resourceful and inventive.Gaia had accomplished so much. She remembered everything that had happened in the beginning, it had all come her in a burst of light. She would make something, create a planet and name it Earth. With thoughts and ideas spilling over in her mind, she began to outline the setting and the plot like a writer beginning a new manuscript. It began to ...

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Tempus Fugit

Weekly Contest #294

                                                 TEMPUS FUGITAlexander was late again, but she told herself that it was just the way Alexander was.He was well built, stocky, and usually rather untidy in his dress. Even if he combed his hair constantly, it flopped annoyingly over his forehead. You neve...

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Crossing Paths

Weekly Contest #274

                              Word Count 1330 CROSSING PATHS            A true story                  The woods that encircle the old Cemetery in Jacksonville, Southern Oregon, are fast disappearing, but there are still...

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Hell Hath no Fury

Weekly Contest #273

                                                     2,936 WordsHell Hath No FuryClaire Swanson had just turned fifty-five when she became the office manager of Prouty Classic Car Sales & Leasing in Manchester. She was confident in her abilities to run a small office, although ...

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Dead End

Weekly Contest #272

                                                                   Word count: 2743 Dead Endby Angela Ewing I am lost, driving on a long empty road in the Arizona desert in front of a truck that has been beh...

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The Visit

Reedsy Writing Prompt number 418                                                                Words: 1,944 THE VISITbyAngela Ewing I was sitting in the comfortable living room of my home in Oregon when the phone rang. It was...

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