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Jo Stoll

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2023

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truce?

The meeting had gone very wrong. The government is hungry, they desire to rip my people apart. Yet, the reason for that was because of a different leader. A different tribe.A different situation.Yet they still attribute this to us, this menace to the normal way of life. This danger. But believe me, we are not yet ready to strike first. Not ready for offense.So we defend.                            &...

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Warped

  "You can't run forever, boy!" my neighbor told me, chuckling as he swung on the rickety porch swing outside his home. "August can only go so far!" "Oh, I won't!" I call out as I jog to the next house, August's house, but only his ma's ma lives there now.He’s been missing, see.“Love, he’s been dead for ten years,” says the little old lady in the doorway, looking concerned, after I have knocked and been greeted. "Ten-year anniversary today, even.” “But c’mon! He... he's your daughter's son-" I stop. It’s no use arguing with Au...

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bitter

11/1I got a call from my parents. That day… I remember it like it’s burning my conscience, knowing that I did it to her. Me. I brought her to that horrible place, knowing it could endanger her. She was just seven and loved me more than her own mother. And yet it was me who killed her, in the end. I didn’t realize. I swear.10/3I wrap my fleece around my body as the wind howled around me on the way to school. Lylli skipped along as she held my hand, cheerful despite the cold. “If you could be any animal what would you be?” she said. She h...

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