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Madelyn Bourque

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2025

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Dear Mama

*Warning: Contains mentions of death and grief, as well as cancer (although not explicitly mentioned)*Dear Mama, Happy 48th birthday. I wish that you could have been here. Lilly's learning how to walk now, and she toddles around, falling down every three steps or so and collapsing in giggles. Her hair is wispy, dark brown curls, like your hair, when you had hair. She talks a lot, not real words but mumbles and little sounds in her own made-up language. She also knows three signs in ASL, so she can sign with Anna a bit. I know you would have ...

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Shattered like a Porcelain Vase

Ana was leaving.Leaving her.Leaving her alone in this tiny apartment, in this vast city, in a world that didn’t make sense anymore.She knew Ana cared—sisters always do—but the reasons for it all played like static in Maria’s mind. She replayed the moments, the half-conversations, the silences filled with old tea and unopened letters that covered the kitchen counter. Somehow, despite knowing Ana loved her, she still couldn’t understand why her sister would walk away. Not now. Not when everything felt so fragile, like the vase Maria had once s...

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When She Escaped

Aymee wasn’t trying to get lost that day. As she later told The Headmistress, she had simply been trying to get out of the stuffy orphanage and into that big, beautiful world that she had always dreamed of entering. Besides, the gently falling snow outside her small, dirty window made the forest look so magical and mystical that she really just had to go outside and explore it. Clambering quietly out of the window at the dead of night was just as romantic as Aymee had imagined it to be, although the drop from the slanted rooftop was quite f...

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