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Joseph Howell

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2020

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The Swiping of Ms. Flannery’s Other Worldly Secret Ingredient

Weekly Contest #71

1 I don’t know what it was that caused me to wake without reason at three-sixteen in the morning on the morning of December twenty fifth. Sure enough, however, by three-seventeen I am standing at the foot of my bed wide awake. This is highly unusual as it is unheard of to find me out from beneath my sheets before noon. I stand at the foot of my full sized mattress in my tiny eight by eight foot bedroom, hands on my hips, listening. Listening for… for anything, really. Surely it had not been solely random that my eyes peeled opened at such...

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Jake Dasher vs. Amy Snickerdoodle for Merryville’s Top Baker Award

Weekly Contest #71

1 As I lounge by the toasty open fire in my living room and sip on my favorite holiday nog, I disappointingly stare up at the bare mantle above the heart warming flames in my fireplace; the empty mantle that has meant to be the place I would proudly display the “Merryville’s Top Baker Award” for the last four years now. That place I have planned to showcase the award that I so rightfully deserve but there has been one little ol’ problem for the last four years… Amy Snickerdoodle. To put it simply, my running competition and the winner of ...

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