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Krista Tritt

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2023

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Cleaning Up Bottles With You on New Year's Day

Krista Tritt

Submitted to Contest #231

Callie made her way on quiet feet through the living room, picking up stray bottles and stepping over friends and strangers who’d found odd places to sleep. One hung halfway off the arm of the couch, feet on the ground and head on a pillow on the sofa seat. Two were leaned against each other in the middle of the room, somehow sleeping sitting back to back. And there, just before the doorway to the kitchen, was Graham. Back on the ground, feet on the wall, hands behind his head. Except he wasn’t asleep, his eyes were on her. She stopped and ...

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It's the Being Unknown

Krista Tritt

Submitted to Contest #230

“Do you know I could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, I still carry for you? That I’d walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowing you. It ain’t the being alone… It ain’t the empty home, baby… You know I’m good on my own… Baby, you know it’s more the being unknown. And there are some people, love, who are better unknown.” Unknown / Nth by Hozier Step 1: Get off the floor. This floor. The only thing that feels solid, unshakable, and unmovable in the midst of this spiraling hole. Yes, get off of that. Step 2...

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Dear Sir or Madam

Krista Tritt

Submitted to Contest #212

1 August 2023 Dear Sir, On behalf of the Wenburry City Council, I would like to inform you of upcoming roadworks which will be completed outside your home on October Street. The runoff from potion precipitation has ceased to flow in the pipes beneath your street, and it is clear that the ancient pipework there must be unclogged. Unfortunately, the original designers of the drainage system were rather shortsighted wizards and did not include an entry point to the underground works in their plan. As such, we will need to blow up the street i...

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