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Julia Dolinish

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2025

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If You Can Hear Me

Weekly Contest #377

The large wooden doors shut with a boom, and I opened my eyes for the night. There is something about the midnight masses that just mess with my flow, my evenings…. but I guess it gave me something else to listen to. The parish cat wound around my leg as I started my rounds for the night. If you told me when I was alive that I could continue sentient living, but with only cats to keep me company in the parish halls I would have said that was a sweet deal. Yet the loneliness might be worse than the hell the generations of priests drone on and...

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Veiled

Weekly Contest #329

The years had started to waste away my edges till a talented seamstress with a love for vintage lace found me at an antique store down by the highway. Before I knew it I was back to nearly my former glory, time playing just a bit with color through my fabric. But sitting here in this boutique it seems like no one wants crisp white these days anyway. I’ve been only brought out to sample on a few rare occasions; something in the store owners mood, or the style of dress these women buy keeps me away at the top of the inventory closet, sealed up...

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Lost in the Trees

Julia grumbled to herself. It was her third walk to find the designated place to pee in the past two hours. How she let her friends talk her into camping for their girls’ trip to the Pacific North West she would never understand. It was stunningly beautiful here though. She found herself lost in thought, staring at the forest provided more shades of green than she’d ever seen back home. Laura and her joked earlier that they stepped into an alternate universe. “It feels like we’re in Twilight.” “I was gonna say the same thing!” Laura squealed...

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