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Clara Martin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021

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The Insomniac

Weekly Contest #97

Amber Rayne sits on her bed looking outside her window at the stars twinkling in the midnight sky. She's having another restless night of sleeplessness. Her mind is spinning thoughts a mile a minute. She watches as an ambulance goes by her window with lights flashing and sirens blasting loudly. The dogs in the apartment complex began to howl as the ambulance goes by. She hears scratching at the front door and goes downstairs to investigate the sound. When she looks out she sees a stray cat licking its paw and purring softly. She goes into he...

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The Kindness of Strangers

Weekly Contest #96

Jennifer Wynn lost her husband Gavin in a gas explosion at the Kotobee mine in Burkesville, Alabama. She and her three children were in desperate need of help. Gavin was the sold breadwinner of the family. Jennifer had to leave her job to take care of their special needs daughter Reagan. The family had moved from their hometown of Trenton Kentucky to Alabama because of Gavin's job at the coal mine. They hadn't been in Burkesville a year before Gavin passed. Jennifer didn't know any of her neighbors in the small neighborhood. The family was b...

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Alexis's Choice

Weekly Contest #95

Alexis Green had just graduated in May 2020 from Marigold High School in Cartersville, Alabama. It has always being Alexis's dream to be an actor like her father Julian. She wants to go live with her dad in Ireland so she will be able to go to The Gaiety School of Acting. Her mother wants her to go to Cartersville Community College like she did and study nursing. Alexis is torn between making her dreams come true or disappointing her mother. Her Grandmother Lily always knows what to say when she's having a problem. Alexis gets on her bi...

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Dare to Scare

Weekly Contest #94

It was the last of school for the children at Roy Emerson Middle School in Windale, Alabama. Four boys Todd Smith, Garrett Johnson, Willie Jones, and Chad Anderson were excited to start their summer vacation off going fishing at Dalton Lake. They decided to walk home instead of riding the school bus. The boys took the long way around since they got out of school at noon. The last couple of days of school were always half days for the students. There was a path where a dirt road leads near a creek. The boys had never been this way and their c...

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An Unforgettable Experience

Weekly Contest #93

When Angela Martin got to work Tuesday morning there was a card on her desk. She put her briefcase and purse into her chair and picked up the card. Written on the outside of the envelope was invited in all capital letters. When she opened up the inside of the envelope, it was a birthday invitation from her co-worker Donna Franklin. Angela had only known Donna for three months. The most they have ever said to one another was a good morning. Angela hated going to parties. She always bought gifts before party time and gave them to family member...

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New Year's Eve Blackout

Weekly Contest #92

It's New Year's eve 2011 in the city of Bristol New York. Everyone has gathered in the square to watch the New Years' ball drop. Erica and Blake Shields and all of their friends came to celebrate the occasion. There are all sorts of activities around. Food trucks, people dancing in costumes, and waitresses passing around alcoholic beverages in tall glasses. The countdown begins with the New Year. People are counting as the ball began to fall slowly. Amid the count down a transformer explodes and sparks of fire and smoke go flying all over th...

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The Librarian

Weekly Contest #91

The Oakley Public Library in Peachtree, Georgia is one of the oldest and largest important landmarks in the small town. The librarian Miss Quimby has been at the library for thirty-five years. There are six other staff members at the library working helping and keeping things in order. She's a small-framed woman with gray hair that she keeps up in a bun. She wears eyeglasses that hang around her neck and sits firmly upon her long nose. Miss Quimby and the staff keeps the library in immaculate order and running smoothly for the locals. She lo...

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Train to Chicago

Weekly Contest #90

It was 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, November 26, 2019, when Austin Green boarded the Amtrak train from Milwaukee to Chicago. Austin was going home to see his parents for the Thanksgiving holidays. It had been over a year since he had seen them in person. He had talked on the telephone with him about every other weekend. Austin was a senior at Milwaukee University as a Fine Arts major. The train ride to Chicago was pack to capacity that morning. As he boarded to train he found a window seat midways the train. Austin put his larger baggage in the ...

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A Leap of Forgiveness

Weekly Contest #89

It had been over eighteen years since my brother Shane and I heard from our father. He and our mother divorced when I was ten and Shane was three. When he remarried his second wife, she forbid him to have anything to do with us. It hurt that he just seem to have thrown us away for his new family. Mother would tell us not to worry that he would need us someday. Our father missed out on so many special things in our lives. Birthdays, graduations, weddings, and the births of his grandchildren. In late September, our mother received a phone call...

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The Deceiver

Weekly Contest #88

A long time ago, on the Old Locust Plantation located in southern Mississippi lived a man named Johnny Walker. Johnny was known on the plantation as the deceiver. Telling lies for him was like breathing in air for regular people. Wherever Johnny went turmoil followed. He loved eavesdropping and telling people's deepest, dark secrets. Back then in the 1940s, many black people worked for white people cleaning their houses, babysitting their children, cooking their meals, and planting crops in their fields. Mr. Adams had one of the largest wate...

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St Elmore Park Hoax

Weekly Contest #87

In 1990-1991, the recession was at an all time high. People in the small family-oriented rural town of Pinehurst, Alabama saw more than their share of hardships. The local coal mining plant laid off over three-hundred people in January that year. Small business owners struggling to stay open had to close down their stores. Farmers also had a hard time with their crops because of the drought and unemployment rates were on the rise. On March 27, 1991, two radio DJs Buckwild Charles and Big Red Hardy from WZRP radio station announced that there...

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