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K R Elle

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2021

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The Cook Who Couldn't

K R Elle

Weekly Contest #333

“I cannot believe I won the drawing!” Bernadine said excitedly, as she knocked on the door of the large home.Every week, Bernadine watched Mrs. Cook Cooks, the number one cooking show in the country.Mrs. Cook was Melissa Cook, a former paralegal turned overnight culinary sensation specializing in traditional Norwegian food.Bernadine had registered for a drawing when ordering some cookware and won a ticket to a live show and dinner party with Melissa Cook herself.The door was opened by a distinguished butler wearing a white jacket, white glov...

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The Influencers

K R Elle

Weekly Contest #324

Part 1Alvina and Bernadine had been standing on the bridge over the narrowest part of Smalls Lake when they heard the screams. The sound came from an area of water obscured by a sudden curve of the shoreline and thick evergreen tree cover. Bernadine had brought her binoculars for bird watching and held them up to her eyes, trying to see the source of the distress.“Help me! Help me!” a man’s voice yelled.Bernadine dropped the binoculars, letting the strap around her neck do the work of holding them. She and Alvina looked at each other, alarme...

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Women of Quality

K R Elle

Weekly Contest #316

Barbara Lewis had been in security and loss prevention at Iris Department Store long enough to know when she saw a shoplifter in action.She smirked as she looked at live security camera footage of the chubby, tattooed woman hovering in the home goods section of the store.“I’m watching you, trashy lady,” Barbara whispered.Deciding to go undercover to track the thief, she put her store ID in her wallet on her desk in the security room and headed out to the floor.The sales staff all straightened up when they saw Barbara. Although she was securi...

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The Job Interview

K R Elle

Weekly Contest #280

“Good morning. Is it morning?”“I think it’s just past noon, sir.”“Yes, yes of course—it’s easy to lose track of time—no windows in this whole building. Can’t tell if its day or night.”“I understand, sir. And… before we get started let me say thank you for scheduling me for this interview.”“You are very welcome, Miss…Poor?? POOR?! Is that really your last name?”“Uh, yeah. It’s the name I was born with.”“Ha ha ha! How unfortunate. But I guess if you truly are ‘Poor’ you definitely need this job! Ha, ha!”“I, well as I said, thank you for t...

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The Startup

K R Elle

Weekly Contest #279

I need to find Zowen.I know he’s here somewhere in this park or rather, under it.It has grown wild in the last few years. Weeds choke off the hiking trails, briar patches proliferate, and trees are popping up everywhere. The old reservoir is little more than a swampy bog filled with cattail and sedge.I get up off the ground and stretch to give my back some relief. I lean down to grab my water bottle and sit down with my maps.Shelter Park is approximately four-hundred and twenty-two acres.Checking the map of the park, I can see that I ha...

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Yesterday is Forever

K R Elle

Delia Lewis opened the front door and found the milk waiting for her in glass bottles. No butter this time, the milk man must have forgotten. She picked the bottles up and took them into her small cottage before she went back into her bedroom, sat down at her vanity and took out her hair curlers. She sighed, as she looked into the mirror, it was really time for another color, grey seemed to appear on her head overnight. As she finished putting on her blue day dress, she heard a knock at the front door. “Who could that be?” she whispered. Ope...

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No One is Watching

K R Elle

Shortlisted for Contest #219 ⭐️

I think someone’s watching.  I have heard that it’s normal to feel like you’re being watched after you commit a murder. Maybe it is guilt, maybe it is paranoia. Just in case it is intuition, I walk over to the windows quickly. I look around the backyard, I see nothing except night punctuated by a few Christmas lights strung around a privacy fence. Lucky we are on the second floor. I can still hear the muffled noise of the crowd downstairs. Ella, our department chair and her husband Richard always throw the faculty holiday party.&nb...

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It Pays the Bills

K R Elle

Weekly Contest #190

I am feeling all of my fifty-nine years as my assistant is slathering my bare skin down with petroleum jelly. I already have the make-up on. That’s the easy part, the hard part is the costume. Luckily, LionCon only comes once a year.I will never forget the first time I saw The Deer Hunter. It was a Friday night 1978, I was fourteen years old and had badgered my older brother to take me to a movie. The one condition was that he got to pick the movie. I agreed and sat down in the theater resolved to enjoy a night out of the house no matte...

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Found You

K R Elle

Shortlisted for Contest #175 ⭐️

Grandma is dying but she has lived a long and good life. At the age of ninety-seven, she was in remarkably good shape until a cancer diagnosis three months ago. She made it clear from the start that she didn’t want to fight it. No chemo, no radiation, no surgeries. “Just keep me comfortable and let me die in my own home,” was all she asked. My sister, Laurie, and I were supposed to be taking turns staying with her in her house, but Laurie works a lot. I am basically staying here full-time. Fortunately, my job is a remote research positi...

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Legacies

K R Elle

Note: This story deals with disappearance and death. I walk through my home now and I marvel at how safe everything looks. More than safe, solid. The dark heavy beams, the hardwood floor, the double-paned windows set inside the thick walls. My great-grandfather built this house. He meant it to be the ‘forever home’ for his family line running through the eldest children. The oldest child of every generation inherits the house. That is his rule and it is written in the spidery old script of his will, still on file down at the courthouse. Yo...

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Permanent Residents

K R Elle

Weekly Contest #148

Note: This story mentions both suicide and murder.Caroline did not mind the quiet so much, but Arthur hated it. Vivian had mentioned that she was getting bored with no tenants around. Ewell had said nothing. The kids, twins named Hazel and Haskell, managed to make their own fun. They chased the mice that scurried down the empty hallways, looked inside the walls at treasures people had hidden and sometimes played in the empty rooms. Still yesterday, Caroline had found them sitting on the stairs in the second floor landing staring out the...

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