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Haley Clark

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2019

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A Christmas Truce

Submitted to Contest #178

Holly paces before the great hall’s doors, wringing her silver-gloved hands. She knows she should be admiring the festive decorations her team managed to scrounge up in the days since she came up with this plan. But Holly can’t stop thinking of the last Christmas she and her siblings spent together. It was the first family Christmas since her mother’s passing. The holiday season following the death of her father had been more of a celebration; there were inheritance gifts, after all. But without their dear mother to keep the peace, the las...

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Witching Hour at the Haunted-House Hotel

Shortlisted for Contest #13 ⭐️

Another decade had passed and Margaret arrived again to the old house at the end of the lane.  Even with the recently completed renovations and the creaking sign outside proclaiming The Haunted-House Hotel, the home she once knew had changed very little. What had been a lawn of soft Augusta grass the new homeowner transformed into a bed of fresh-tilled earth. Gravestones—too clean to be anything but props— speckled the yard, ghoulish puppets fluttering in the wind behind them.  “You kids stop tearing apart my decorations!" Mar...

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