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Astrid De Keyser

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2024

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Childhood idyll

Submitted to Contest #263

*Splash* The ripples made by the big rock falling into the water had barely disappeared when Valerie took another one and hurled it in as well. She'd come to the river to cool down, maybe skip a few rocks, but the anger living beneath her skin was a living thing. It twisted and turned and tried to claw its way out. Throwing increasingly large rocks into the water at least gave her the satisfaction of seeing its still surface disturbed. A small act of violence rather than the large ones she increasingly wished to carry out. It was ridiculous...

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Like Cassandra, or Sisyphus, or Bill Murray

Submitted to Contest #262

It was a sweltering summer evening, the air thick with humidity and the buzzing of insects. There'd be a storm tonight, no doubt about it. Lying in the grass Josie closed her eyes and pictured it. First the distant rumble and a slow darkening of the sky. The insects falling quiet and all forest creatures making their way into their dens. Humans would be the last ones out in the open, breaking into a mad scramble to get the laundry of the line, putting toys and barbecues inside as the first fat raindrops began falling on them. The clasp of th...

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