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Desarae O'Hare

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2026

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The Margins of Rock Bottom - Based on My Lived Life Experience

Weekly Contest #343

She didn’t mean to make a ceremony out of it. It just happened that way. The first page tore too easily. The sound surprised her with a soft, almost polite noise. It was nothing like the noise in her chest. She stood in the kitchen with a stack of notebooks she’d been carrying for years, their covers bent, their margins crowded with questions she never finished asking. Scripture, prayers, half-brave hopes. She told herself she was only cleaning. Then the second page went. Then the third. By the time she noticed her hands were shaking, paper...

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The Mercy Of Paper

Weekly Contest #341

One fleeting encounter binds Abigail Whitmore and Rhett Wylder through letters of longing, faith, and desire. Years later, Rhett attempts to hand deliver a final letter from jail only to learn she married months before. A story of love deferred, secrets kept, and hearts tested by fate, told entirely through letters. Letter 1 March the 11th, 1790 Miss Whitmore, I do not know if you will forgive the liberty of this letter. I tell myself that paper is less dangerous than speech, and still my hand has hesitated over your name longer than I will ...

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