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R. Hann

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

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Bones

Weekly Contest #192

TW: Implications of Suicide, Dark Imagery, Gore/Violence/Blood, Horror Themes, Mental Health --- When bones clatter, spirits sing. Bones rot into the earth, decomposing, worms wriggling in holes torn through marrow, ghosts dance and rejoice, their songs howling and wild. In Sanctum, the trees and bushes harmonize with the singing of ghosts and specters; I know they do, I hear them. I hear them in the morn echoing the cries of mourning doves, and in the afternoon when the sun blazes, burning, boiling bright in the pale blue of what I’ve ...

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If I'm Lucky

Weekly Contest #166

TW: Implied/Discussed Sexual Assault (Mild), Car Accident, Amputation/Major Injury, Bullying/Blackmail, Abusive Power Dynamic (Work Environment)---January 10th.Jonathan told me we hired someone new today. We haven’t hired any new people in months, not since the last guy got caught stealing from the company. I asked what their name was and he told me: Azalea. I haven’t met anyone with that name before, and just by name association, they sound beautiful. I know the flowers are, and I like to believe that names are often a reflection of a ...

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The Photo Album

Weekly Contest #164

TW: Death Mention, Brief Mentions of Implied Gambling/Debt Accrual---Lady Ophelia was regarded as a prim woman, dressed in modest attire, and her hair pulled neatly into a bun at the base of her neck. Gold spectacles rested on a hawk-like nose while her lips remained in a disapproving sneer like she smelled a rotting corpse throughout each day. The town’s children played daring games, challenging one another to see who could get closest to the Lady’s gated mansion. Iron-wrought fence lined the exterior, extending some twenty feet in the air,...

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The Trees Used To Sing

Weekly Contest #164

TW: Death, Descriptions of Death, Gore/Violence, War Themes, Descriptions of Corpses, Some Language --- “Where I come from, the trees used to sing,” the Old Man told me, “The Oak would start and the Hickory would join, the Willow would harmonize, and the woodlands would be the center of music and chorus, of love, and of joy.” I snuck away from home every day, avoiding my chores, to hear stories from the Old Man about where he came from. He told me about Varengar, about the city of song, the city of gold, and how every morning the sun ...

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Moving House

Weekly Contest #163

TW/CW: Death mentions, Disease (implied Cancer), Emotional Turmoil, Mourning/Grief, Mental Health Moving house will always be described as a process in life no one truly enjoys. Yet, for someone who has moved so often, one would think I like it by now. I have packed, taped, and shoved so many boxes into the moving truck I have forgotten what I own. I know there are approximately fifteen different boxes of books that are horrendously heavy— a consequence of my knack for collecting hardback books instead of logical paperbacks. My arms are ti...

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