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Meghan Brooks

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2023

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The Curse That Struck Glowery

Submitted to Contest #335

Trigger warning: child kidnapping and abuse, gruesome violence and imagery, and implications of torture. There was an unspoken rule between the humans and the Draconians: humans must never take an egg from the Draconians. The dragon folk were forbidden from taking newborn human children as it was, but humans taking eggs wasn't just about separating families. It was more than just the dragons causing rampages until the babies were returned. Depending on the color of the scales taken, it is said that taking an egg from the Draconians will bri...

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Vega's Log

Submitted to Contest #319

Vega's Log - 27-2-8This is Sparkzel Vega. It's my first time off-world from home in a while, not that I'll miss Gekkoden or when they experiment and use me for strengthening the will of the Empire. I may be their Crown Prince, but I know the Commander and his sycophants won't use me for diplomacy with the planets they're planning to target. They know which planets the Modgekkon Overlord wants to take to grow his Empire. I never asked to be his son. He sees me as an anomaly to be analyzed and studied just because I was born as an Ignite weapo...

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The Sparkz of Power

Submitted to Contest #311

Lukyan "Luke" Silva was tossing and turning in the morning, coughing and making noise from a dream.In his dream, he was running in a forest from some unknown creatures with red eyes approaching within a storm. He tripped on a tree branch as one of the bat-eared creatures lunged at him from the treetops and lightning pierced the sky around them. Luke saw rainbow-colored flames come from his body before he was awakened by someone coming into his room. It was his overprotective older brother, Leo."You feeling okay, Luke?" Leo asked, "I heard yo...

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Ulf and the Valravn

Submitted to Contest #307

Trigger warning: disturbing war imagery, child deaths, gore, and corpse mutilation.Studying is never easy, especially when stretched thin between final projects and tests before the college year is over. Having finals for computer science, statistics, and abnormal psychology is hard enough. However, with doing a big project on one of the religions covered in world religion class, Blake Jensen decided to go to the undergraduate library. He thought that would help him get the hardest part taken care of before cramming for the tests on loads ...

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Larval Soldiers

Submitted to Contest #303

Queen Taldycia Polvero remembered when her mother, former Queen Pygople Polvero, told her and other members of the Polvero Hive tales of when the Chemibrion Empire began their rise in power within the oceans of Sokondro. The Dorcasoms had various battles with each other and the barbaric Narkelegens that wanted more Necturum metal for their tribes. The Pleurodans kept to themselves but occasionally had Narkelegens steal from the Dorcasoms if it meant it would advance the society they were quietly building. Everything changed when the Chemibri...

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Don't Trust the Hive Queens

Submitted to Contest #301

It had been what felt like years since the end of the Holometa-Chemibrion War and the plague of the Morphians began on Sokondro. The Chemibrion Empire's Oligarchs had vanished from the face of the planet, with their underlings left to face the amorphous death without their guidance. The Dorcasom Hives, meanwhile, were in shambles with many devoured by this ever-changing, ravenous horde of ghost white mudskippers, including four of the Hive's Queens with the latest being Hymeno Siric. It was supposed to be a simple escort mission during a tim...

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The Unfinished Woods

Submitted to Contest #300

Trigger warning: animal mutilation, implications of suicide, mental health issues, drug abuse, and child abuse.Ashley Davis was a typical high school girl with brown hair who lived in one of Wheatland’s neighborhoods called River Woods. She loved writing and was coaxed by her English teacher to take over the editor spot for the school newspaper called the Wheatland High Gazette. Ashley was unusually fascinated by a forest area deep in her backyard that she had to share with her neighbors since they had no fences. This area looked like it wa...

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The Doom from the Empire's Hand

Submitted to Contest #296

Morphan, the eldest of the Chemibrion Oligarchs, was the most devastated among them about the loss of Explosmuto during this wretched war the Holometa Hive had caused. It wasn't enough the hive-minded fools used their Lepturoban assassins to take Gastrictus from them when he was sent to oversee the progress of the Pleurodan Research and Development facility on the island of Heraclon. They had to take their other brother during the war. Further adding insult to injury was the fact that Lepturobans dealt the final blow to Explosmuto within the...

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The Exiled Arises

Submitted to Contest #296

Temera didn't expect the war against the Hive to turn out like this. She had hoped that by fighting in this war that her honor would be restored, and she would be able to return as a redeemed warrior of the Narkelegen tribe that cast her out. She had lost in a battle against her twin sister, Ocura, a battle that decided the successor to the Nebulosa tribe's leader, their father Uropter. Now the war was ended not by victory from either the Empire or the Hive, but by the harbingers of the plague of the Morphians. Ghost-white mudskippers with t...

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The Unreal Storm

Submitted to Contest #295

I wanted to try something different from my usual takeout. If a salad with spicy chicken was that good, I wonder what a spicy chicken sandwich would taste like. I didn't expect that chicken sandwich to be so spicy that I would get sick from it. This was not something I thought would happen. I had to use milk and chocolate to counteract the spiciness I felt in my mouth. It was scary that my mouth and throat both felt like they were on fire. Little did I know that the impact of the spice had only just begun. My stomach was hurting, making me f...

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Hirsu's Mission

Submitted to Contest #293

A train left from Gwal'Lebad for a day's journey to the furthest part of Erebuk, with many anxious passengers onboard. One in particular was using the train as a means to escape what he had done. He stared out the window of the train to look back at the life he left behind; the war-torn forest that was taken over by a viscous, gluttonous enemy he wouldn't know how to combat no matter how many paralytic stingers he shot out. He was Hirsu Polvero, a top Glaphyr Dorcasom lieutenant, who was leaving his hive behind. He couldn't go back home to h...

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Dragon Knight Awoken

Submitted to Contest #291

I woke up, feeling dazed, wondering what the hell happened to me. I perked up from hearing shrill yells of panicked people and security outside, and then noticed I was in the backroom of a store. Am I supposed to be here? I got up and noticed I got taller after hitting my head on a light. I looked at my hands and noticed that I had clawed hands with obsidian scales. While wondering about that, I heard a security guard yelling, "The creature is in here, sir!" That’s when I ran in the place further. Then while looking back a bit, I noticed a h...

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Hoot Knew?

Submitted to Contest #226

Deals with demons, bargains with fairies, contracts work with strigans, all of these require reading the fine print before one throws themselves at something that they might come to regret in the long run. Desperation breeds rash decisions and that's what makes these transactions all the more powerful and dangerous like they were fish, ensnared by the temptation of a fishing line. Not many people are known to have wised up to the sweet talk of these beings and gotten out of these dealings with their souls, hearts, or other things they valued...

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The Tome of Night Terror

Submitted to Contest #221

Trigger warning: violence, mentions of Hell, and gruesome deaths.The Bat Wing Society bookstores had many customers come and go, renting spellbooks to those who wanted to experiment and use them for whatever purpose they wanted. The lady of this particular Pondview store, Miss Foxglove, cautioned against using books that involved the use of dark arts, especially necromancy. She kept certain books like a book with the face of a blue demon on the cover locked up as a precaution. Miss Foxglove wanted to ensure that no one stole them at night or...

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Tail of the Raiju

Submitted to Contest #220

Trigger warning: violence and gruesome death. Astraphobia: defined as the extreme fear of thunder and lightning. It is also known as brontophobia and keraunophobia. Corin Downing went out for a walk on a Sunday morning, stopping by the book shop in downtown Naperville. She looked at some books on Japanese folklore, looking into myths related to the yokai. She was interested in this research after realizing through a blood test that she had Japanese ancestry. She was hoping to connect with her family's roots. She spent so much time, engr...

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