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Ella Dunn

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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Happy Holidays?

“Well, uh, that’s cool…” It was her sister who had answered. At 23 years old, Lindsey Macguire had just come out to her whole family at the dinner table. On Thanksgiving. Her grandparents stared, eyes wide. Her aunts and uncles gaped. Her father’s brows had furrowed, and her mother’s facial expression was unreadable, her face a blank slate. The silence had been broken but sewn back together again, encapsulating them all in a moment of disbelief, frozen in time. And then the moment was over, and everyone began whispering to one another. “T...

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Cursed Cake!

Submitted to Contest #7

I stared down at my plate, my stomach churning. I glanced around at the other people at the table with me, all letting out satisfied groans as they ate their share. at the sound of forks clanging against platters, scraping the last of the frosting off of porcelain, I broke into a cold sweat, my skin getting slippery under my thick dress. I nervously adjusted the crown on my head. Itched my jaw. Straightened my thick skirts. Glanced at the others. My eyes caught my plate again, my mouth filling with saliva, my eyes surely full of longing.My m...

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A Typical Day In The Life of Ella Dunn

Submitted to Contest #3

I'm not sure why I woke up so early that morning. Maybe it was my sister, bouncing the ball against her door in the next room. Or maybe it was my soggy back end, soaked by a fallen water cup in the middle of the night. Whatever caused me to wake up, I was grumpy either way. I threw the sweat-soaked sheets off of me and swung my legs over the side of the bed. My foot landed on something squishy and I closed my eyes in terror. Please, not dog poop, I prayed, please not dog poop, please, God, not dog poop! I tentatively opened one eye and looke...

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