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Ash Barwick

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

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Mother of me

I knelt down to the boxes packed from the week before, a deep sadness overcome my body, childhood memories swept my thoughts, until they met up with your last moments, our last moments, I didn't know they were our last moments, guilt took over my sadness, weeping in my misery, thinking how I never made enough visits in these last few months.My sister wrapped her arms around me, comforting me as I felt like a lost little girl whos mother had just passed.I'm 28.Death is strange.Thinking to myself how can I overcome this pain, so heavy, never h...

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Dreamer

She wakes, arm out stretched for her notebook and pencil, blurry eyed and still in the dream scape, she begins to scribble words in her book. "bridge, sunset, orange frog, stairs, ute... No order or sense if we was to read these words but she knows. She has been documenting her dreams for 8 years now, notebooks line her cane shelf, with mangled English on each page. It all came about from one dream she could not release from her mind, it was on repeat, staying in her thoughts and reoccurring in her dream state. Slight changes occur each ...

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Grow up

Weekly Contest #101

The car ride seemed like hours, the energy wasn't easy and my body was tense, my jaw clenched and there was so many things I wanted to yell at him.I have grown past that violence, I no longer re act that way, even though my body tried and my mind tried a little hard, I didn't let myself slip.It was only a 30min trip in reality.I asked him how the food was, he's reply was "ok"Simple dead end conversations all the way.Then I composed myself from anger to love, looked him in the eyes, I told him it was time to grow up, that he's wasted the last...

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