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Leanne O'Connell

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2023

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Remember me?

Don’t You Remember Me? I hold the stainless bowl under the tap. The sound of the water fills the kitchen, louder and louder, until it seems to swallow me. The pipes clatter. The faucet hisses. The bowl brims. I turn off the tap. Silence falls too quickly, too heavy. I glance at the window, expecting to see the orchard I have tended for half my life. Instead, a man stands there. A stranger. He is motionless, staring straight at me through the glass. His clothes are ordinary, jeans and a windbreaker. But his stillness is not. His eyes hold no ...

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The Echo House Chamber of Illusions

Submitted to Contest #225

A dense fog hung over the once-thriving town of Hollow Creek, enveloping it like a shroud. The deserted streets were eerie and quiet, with the occasional rustle of leaves and the distant hoot of an owl the only breaking of silence. At the heart of this ghostly town stood, The Echo House Chamber of Illusions, a towering structure of glass and black steel cladding that seemed to warp and distort in the mist this dark evening. Its countless, multifaceted windows reflected the distorted and twisted image of the town around it, a grotesque paro...

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