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Rebecca Lubin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2024

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Burn it Down to the ground

Submitted to Contest #296

He was born into a world already on fire, so it was no wonder he possessed a predisposition to set it all aflame from time to time. To burn it all down to the ground was both a war cry for freedom and his process of sending up a white flag, begging to be saved. The chaos of not being cared for as a child had set him on this path, those tender years untethered, adrift, with no guidance but a book of matches. His fingers, they would itch for matches.She had learned from falling in love with others, that if you listened closely to the words of ...

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Chasing Down the Devil on the Taconic State Parkway

Submitted to Contest #272

Once upon a time, when my father was a young man, he was chased by the Devil while driving southbound on the Taconic State parkway. Prior to this paranormal encounter, the Taconic had always been a long, lackadaisical scenic splay of pavement for our family, the link between New York, where we lived, and New England, where our Grandparents quaint little home lay. On the day that The Devil tried to get my Dad, he had dropped off my mother and brothers and me in Massachusetts for a visit, and then had turned around to drive back home. I don’t ...

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