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Lou Jayne

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2024

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Dancing with the Rain

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #332

Dancing with the Rain If I open my eyes, will I finally see that rainbow? Who’s to know? I can certainly see it reflected in my mind the way the colours merge through from the faintest pink reflection into the well known colours red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, with the faintest edge of pink once again. All vibed in a merging flow, smudged perfectly together. My eyes rolling along the colours, over and over, whilst the droplet of rain that hit my forehead less than a second ago rolls down the inner edge of my eye, ticklin...

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She is not Me.

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #316

She is not Me She looks just like me but she is not me. I see her all the time we walk past each other often. Some times she glances in my direction, other times we pass each other in silence.However there have been times when she would look directly at me, even stare me down. She appears a little crazy pulling faces at me, thinking she is funny. I see her for who she is just a copycat. She likes to mimic and pretend she’s cool but I know she is a fake. Constantly trying to outsmart me. There have also been occasions when she has winked a...

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You could have Fooled Me

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #312

You could have Fooled Me Hello there my name is Ramon Carina. I attend my local college ‘Rug- Moore innovative Art college’. Along with around 800 other artists. The college is just like any other with the only difference being we are the first college too trial AI students. By that I don’t mean the usual traditional AI learning assistants like Alexa and Siri. I mean there are around 80 of those students who are actual physical student humanoids mixing in with humans to learn for themselves. They blend in by looking like them and all though...

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Thin Veils

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #307

Thin veils Back in 1825:The veil between worlds was thinning out rapidly. A real life matrix situation of what they thought were aliens controlling what was happening in our reality. This wasn’t good news for anyone. The rules were very clear that the veils were meant to maintain enough space matter between them so they never crossed paths. Everyone and everything lived in their separate parallel universes and no one knew they were a part of the multiverse. Sure they had heard of the possibilities of other planets and life elsewhere. The...

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Split Choice Dating

Lou Jayne

A diverse character base not meant to offend in any way. Split Choice Dating On getting home from work. Simon was excited to listen to the outcomes of his AI dating app . He spoke out loud as he was preparing his dinner."Giselle please tell me my results'Giselle was the name of his AI digital assistant she spoke to him in her robotic voice 'Hello Simon, searching for ' Starter' 'your first date algorithm results 90% or above indicate your best five matches from split choice dating are :- Choice number 1, h 98% matchCasey 'She is a 5 f...

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The Lady of the Night

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #304

The Lady of the Night I am the lady of the nightThere are times I am niceThere are times I am notThere are even times I may give you a frightBut I am here to sayI'm more inspirational than my husband dayI have no influence on anyone's opinionHowever I do believe that I will win you overThere’s just no intrigue in the hours of daylightDays are all so monotonously mundanePeople working hard, attending their appointments Possibly fitting in school runs Or doing some kind of chore Be that at home or outdoorsAlarms disturbing sleep patternsDictat...

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Perfect Misery

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #303

contains abuse and suicidePerfect Misery I should have known better he was perfect for me. He was so perfect for me, he was too perfect for me. In fact he was just perfect misery.Our whole relationship was a complete lie from start to finish.The difference between start and finish was my vision changing from completely rose tinted to crystal clear 20/20 vision.Leaving me with the knowledge, Chester Bellamy with his intense emerald stare would have been perfect in an illusionary world of horror.We met online like most couples these days. I’d ...

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A Pan of Tomato Soup and a Blog about People’s Opinions.

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #302

A Pan of Tomato Soup and a Blog about People's Opinions. Human's are some of the most complex creatures on the planet. Ask yourself how they can all be so different from each other yet share consistent basic needs? Some can be the cruelest, most violent, evil, inconsiderate, power hungry and selfish of the animal kingdom. Yet some have the other extreme of being the kindest, thoughtful, most selfless, good intentioned consideration and are the nicest of the animal kingdom.I get that most humans fall somewhere in between the extremes and lif...

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Never take a Sweet from a Stranger

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #301

Content Warning: Themes of kidnapping, violence, and psychological manipulationNever Take a Sweet from a Stranger Never take a sweet from a stranger. That was one of the first things Paula learned as a child. However when the uber driver offered her a werthers original she couldn’t resist accepting.With their creamy butterscotch flavour, werthers had such happy memories for her until now.***The uber jumped from 10 minutes to 1 minute arrival time as Paula clicked confirm and pay.It was almost as if the driver had been near her house waiting ...

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Memory Lane

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #300

This story contains grief and broken family. Memory Lane People say that you can’t revisit the past but you can. That’s what a photo is. It’s a portal back into the past. When you stare at it you can be right back there remembering the moments of the day you took that very photo. The laughter and the joy that went with it, or the tears, maybe the hugs that occurred before or after it was taken. The past is there right in front of your very eyes, just waiting to take you back to a part of your past that lives in memory lane. *** Sheila loved...

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Good as we Are

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #299

Good as we Are Natasha and Barney had been together for ten years and still Barney hadn’t popped the question. He liked to say, ‘we are good as we are’ a lot. So Natasha had decided she should be the one to ask him. Her plan was to wait until valentine’s week and try to get him to ask her, with the fallback of her own proposal to him. She waited until February intending to celebrate the 7 days of Valentines, including proposing to him on the correct day.The days ran from the 7th-14th as follows: 7th Feb - Rose Day8th Feb - Propose Day9th ...

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Focus Layla

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #296

Focus Layla This story contains some swearing “Hello brain are you in there? I can’t hear you today! Did I die and not realise it?‘Hello please say something, let me know I’m still alive please!” I can feel the panic starting inside as time ticks by, still nothing. My head is completely silent! Quieter than a wasteland with rolling tumbleweeds. Something is not right? Did my brain grow legs and run away in the night? I’ve never known such deafening silence in my head. Sure it’s only been a few moments, but I’m so used to having noise present...

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The White Door

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #295

The white door It’s been locked since the day we moved in no one can find the key anywhere. Nobody has a clue if, and what it leads to if they could access it. It’s a locked door with no key and it sits in the middle of our bedroom wall in the room I share with my younger sister, Chloe.It’s a strange plain white door with the number 13 written on the top of it, also in white. It merges in completely with our white wall. Even the door handle is white, making it blend in so well. It’s almost invisible and most people completely miss it. W...

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Oblivion

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #291

Oblivion He says he knows me but I don’t know him at all. The first time I met him was in the woods where he found me wondering around aimlessly with a head injury. Sure he’s taken care of me, dressed my wounds and been as wonderful as Prince Charming himself, but I just don’t recognise him. I don’t feel any kind of connection. He’s a doctor, at least that’s what he says. He also says I have amnesia and that’s why I don’t recognise him. He’s told me all about our romantic relationship, which explains the engagement ring on my finge...

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Forget me not

Lou Jayne

Submitted to Contest #286

Forget Me Not “I believe you have Athazagoraphobia Latisha”“What does that mean?”“You have an irrational fear of being forgotten, ignored or overlooked”“Oh, so why does it have such a strange name? Wouldn’t ‘forget me not’ phobia be a better one?” “Well it originates from the Greek words "athazagoros," which means "forgotten," and "Phobos," meaning fear. Therefore its literal translation is ‘forgotten fear’, so it is a perfectly correct name for your extreme fear”“I see, so how do I get rid of it?”“It will take a 3 pronged approach of ...

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