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Elizabeth Adams

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2026

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Victory in Miracles

Weekly Contest #358

In the quiet of your kitchen, you watch them through the window above the sink. Nine years old now, your twins chase each other around the backyard, their laughter rising bright and careless into the October sky. Your daughter has your stubborn jaw. Your son has your eyes—light blue, quick to laugh. Together they are everything. And no one outside your family will ever truly understand what their existence cost. Ten years of fighting before they arrived. A decade measured in needles and negative tests, in hope rising and hope crumbling, in g...

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Today is Enough

Weekly Contest #357

Today I stopped walking. I didn't choose to. My legs simply decided they were finished—four stiff columns that had carried me through six years of living, and now they folded beneath me like broken chairs. One moment I was standing in the grass, sniffing at something interesting near the fence. The next, I was down. My belly pressed to the earth, my great head resting on my paws, confused. I am a Great Dane. Two hundred and fifteen pounds of muscle and bone and drooping jowl. People have always looked at me with wide eyes, given me space, wh...

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The Rooting

Weekly Contest #356

Roots E.A. Adams Dear Sarah, I've started this letter seven times. Seven different openings, seven different ways to say "I've been thinking about home", and none of them feel right. So I'm just going to start and hope the thing I'm actually trying to say finds its way to the surface. You asked me last time we talked—you sitting on your porch in Opelika with the cicadas screaming through the speaker, me sitting in this beige Texas kitchen with nothing but the refrigerator humming—you asked if I was okay. And I said "yes". And you said "I di...

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The General Store

Weekly Contest #356

Earth-2025Black Hills, TennesseeThe General StoreCassie I wasn't used to the crisp air. Back in Louisiana, everything was heavy—heat, humidity, grief. The swamp wrapped around you like a damp blanket, and every insect within a three-mile radius screamed into your ears at all hours. The bayou never let you forget you were alive. Tennessee was the opposite. Cold. Bright. Too clean. The air sliced at my cheeks like sharp teeth, carrying pine needles and frost-kissed soil and something mineral beneath it all—stone, maybe, or the bones of the ear...

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