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Nina Swanson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2024

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Not my Shadow

Nina Swanson

Submitted to Contest #325

I’m at the club with coworkers celebrating my birthday. I’m enjoying the comradery with these people I see everyday. Talk of work creeps into many of our conversations, in part because it’s the common denominator in our relationship with each other, but mostly because it’s hard not to think about work. The current question on everyone’s mind is going to be answered soon enough, probably on Monday. Of the ten people at the table only one will get the big promotion.Knowing it is a lie I raise my glass up and say, “No matter who wins we will al...

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The Beginning

Nina Swanson

Submitted to Contest #324

CW: Implied suicide, drowning Once again, like every single other time, she felt the urgent pulling of the sea. The drive from within, the call from outside, was much too hard to resist. Slowly, hesitantly yet purposefully, she walked breathing in the crisp autumn air. She could almost taste the sweetness of the apples as the scent danced ever so gently in the night breeze. Were it not for the full moon, cloaked in the mystery of the stars, so many stars, she’d have seen nothing, not even her own hand before her face. The night was a shadowe...

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Cats and Other Important New Years Day Stuff

Nina Swanson

Submitted to Contest #231

She awoke and eased into her new day on this New Year. She didn't have to be, do, or take care of anything. She was free to focus her attention on her New Year's resolution. Heaven knows She’s done it enough times that She should be an expert on thinking up New Year's resolutions. Since She was only three weeks old her first New Year She can safely say She doesn’t remember making (or breaking) any resolutions that year.  Sure She’s made her share of resolutions to change this or that thing in her life. Things like lose weight, find...

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