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Erika Reva

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2026

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The Trumpets Sound

The Trumpets Sound She hadn't expected the city to follow her home. It started three days after she returned from New Orleans — a Tuesday, ordinary and gray, when she was standing in the cereal aisle of her local grocery store. The fluorescent hum above her faltered once, then held. And then she smelled it: chicory coffee and rot-sweet magnolia, the particular wet-stone breath of the French Quarter at two in the morning. She grabbed a shelf. For a moment, she was back there completely— sitting barefoot on a wrought iron balcony with a S...

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The Ink Won't Listen

Weekly Contest #346

The Ink Won’t Listen Rice. Her name is Rice. She is 17. She is always covered in paint or Sharpie. She is never far from a book. The pages display her with a laugh of corrosive copper and rustling raven feathers. I’m writing this carefully. With slow, methodical intent. Last month, I decided it should be October. The little town of Crooksbane, I wrote her in needed that belligerent mix of weather that begins in late autumn. Lending itself to the tenor of the story. I gave her a best friend. Margo. I gave her a mother who feels guilty for wor...

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