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Eisley Tracy

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2025

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Between the Smoke

TW: Sensitive setting?? Sand and ash swirled in the air, carried by a violent squall that pushed against Lieutenant Hollis in every direction. The ground trembled below him. For a moment Hollis wasn't sure if he was lying down or still standingShouts cut through the haze-- ragged, desperate shouts, but they sounded far away, like they were underwater. A sharp ringing still drowned his ears from most noise, which forced him to open his burning eyes.The sight made his stomach twist.Men lay scattered across the sand where the blast had thrown t...

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Fallen Fellowship

CW: This story contains murder Pointing out: The first line, also the line "Eisman entered finance about the same time I left," are both the first lines of the two books "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," by John Le Carre, and "The Big Short," by Micheal Lewis. This story was written in response from my Creative Writing class I take at school, which asked to write a story using the first line with a book of your choice. I included those two lines for my story. “The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn’t dropped dead at Taunton raccs,” I said to the w...

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Benign Externally, Resentful Internally

Mia Barlowe grew up in a part of town where people didn’t smile warmly or offer pastries to neighbors. Along the yellow lit bricked streets came a strip of rotting houses with vines growing along the sides, where wind carried the distant smell of rust and other fried oils that computed into the air. Her home sat on the end of a crooked thin patch of crabgrass, quiet, less known. The inside was tainted with peeling wallpaper bubbled from humidity and floors that croaked during every step. Mia never minded the mess. She’d grown used to the sma...

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Under The Blanket of Deep Blue

The wind howled vigorously, and waves clashed against jagged rocks just above the coastline, sparring like the angry men in bars. Myler stood next to me, peering off into the void of the seemingly endless ocean, while my gaze was still stuck on his features. “Did you expect this?” He broke the frozen silence that had hung between us for a while, despite the belligerent waves that slapped the shore. “Not at all.” I answered quickly, looking away to the terrain below us. The night sky was so bright, pelting down like an artificial sky projecto...

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