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Erin Suess

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021

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Pipe Burst

It just sounded like running water. She stood there, feeling the spray, eyes closed, telling herself it was just running water, blasting from a pipe, from the wall.“Do I want to know why there is even a pipe in the wall?”“Where do you want the pipes to go,” came the reply over the sound of the liquid flowing out of a cracked pipe.“I mean, they start underground and they end underground, so why are they in walls?”“Are you asking to remove the bathroom from upstairs then?”“Um, I mean…if it removes this scenario, then maybe.”Laughter came out i...

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Darkest before the dawn.

Weekly Contest #101

April 15, 2017. It is always darkest before the dawn. River could still hear her grandfather’s words as she quietly stepped out of the front door 15 minutes before the sun was to rise. She was out here specifically to watch the sunrise. A moment she and her grandfather use to enjoy together. With his passing two weeks ago, she wanted to start to make this a tradition for herself. It didn’t need to be every day, but she wanted to continue the act of watching the sunrise and remembering the good moments of life. This is what she and her grandf...

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Blue-Plate Special

Weekly Contest #100

              Ann-Marie stared into the blue-plate special sitting in front of her. It looked like a gelatinous formation of a volcano that had gone extinct but somehow never hardened. How can restaurants serve this and call it food she thought to herself.               “Eat up dear,” came her grandmother’s voice. “This looks so delicious.”           &nbs...

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