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Meggy House

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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Mom Plus Dad Plus Me Plus the Twins Equals Bad

Weekly Contest #58

           I was lying down, my back on my bed, my legs against the wall, pounding my feet as my sparkly Mary-Jane sneakers scuffed the wallpaper. Pink with butterflies, because I was a girl and apparently girls automatically love pink things with butterflies.           My desk at school had pink on it, too, but that one was a pink rose. Every girl got a flower—yellow daisies, white dandelions, blue lilies, or even purple geraniums, ...

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The Best Building

Weekly Contest #58

           Margarita and Al were generally compliant kids. Obviously they had their moments, but they were definitely ranking in the category of better tenants. They lived with their father, Jerry, and their mother, Dee, and though they made very little at the rubber-eraser factory a two-mile walk away they were two of those pure, generous souls that gave most of what they earned back to the less fortunate. Like the less fortunate would want a five-cent hamburger pack. But the giving and...

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Cracked Cases

Weekly Contest #57

           With a snap, the crew pounced into action. The lights pulsed with a penetrating glow. The cameras clicked, zooming in and focusing on the subject. The theme music blared over the hidden speakers.           “This is United News, America’s first sitcom-based news station,” the anchor paused for some canned laughter to echo into the filming room, “and your host Debbie LaBrown is here investigating Abigail Hartford, New York’s...

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Coal, Not Cole, But Only Because Bart Can't Spell Properly

           Waste not, want not, is what I always believe. Which is how I, Cole Lavine, had the brilliant—if I may say so myself—idea to dig in the ground for energy.           I’ll give you a little background. My buddy Allen and I were fresh out of high school, top brains of our grade, and figured that golly gee, we ought to, you know, contribute to the fine U.S. of A. How to do that? The army, of course. I mean, there was an entire...

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John's Everything

      John technically had three kids: Mary, Maggie, and Mark. John also knew that he was going to die, probably alone, because his kids were all grown-up and off frolicking in society, unlike him. John wasn’t afraid of death, he rather embraced the concept, and the only thing he was afraid of was that it was so uncertain. People died of bad things all the time, from tripping over a nail before getting their Tetanus shots or finally signing up for a PTA-read-to-your-kids event on the one day an alumni pops in an...

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