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Gabrielle Collins

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2025

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Recurrence

The last thing she saw before there was nothing at all was the sky.It was not wide or open in any comforting sense. It was fractured through a dense canopy of leaves, thin shards of grey light pressing through the gaps as though even the sky was struggling to reach her. The branches above were knotted tightly together, tangled in a way that felt deliberate rather than natural, as if the forest had been woven shut. The light trembled between them, unstable and uncertain, and then, slowly, it began to disappear.Something fell past her face.At ...

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Weekly Contest #305

Not much ever happens in our small town. We’re a small community of around 270 people. You have the old timers, the ones who have been here for years as part of the community that keeps the place alive. They are the majority of our population, the most notable of which was Captain Hughes with the police department. The old timers keep to themselves for the most part. As far as they are concerned it’s their town and the rest of us are just allowed to live in it. When I had first left for my new job the only old timer to pay much notice was T...

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