Menu

More apps built by Reedsy

Assemble a team of professionals

The writing app for authors

Writing courses, events and memberships

Get your book reviewed

Weekly writing prompts and contests

Menu
Prompts
Contests
Stories
Blog

Sarah N

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2024

Stories (2)
Comments
Library
2 Followers
0 Following

2 Stories

35 karma pts

?

Emails from Ghosts

Submitted to Contest #278

The email came in at 3:19 a.m. — the kind of time when ghosts might decide to speak, or chairs crack their joints. It was sandwiched between the confirmation of my impulsive midnight purchase — a deodorant in a sleek silver metal casing, dotted with blue stars, requiring eco-friendly paper cartridge refills — and another email from a team begging me to finish the survey I’d abandoned halfway through.For my deodorant, I’d picked the Thunderstorm cartridge, but still couldn’t sleep. Sitting on the floor with my laptop still open — because big ...

8 likes 1 comment 1
Read story

Pink charmies, last Showings and killer callings

Submitted to Contest #273

I whisper, "Well?" You shift your hand on the armrest of the theater's box seats—the best seats in the house—and pull your gaze away from the screen. "What?""The last showing at the cinema. What do you think?"Another scene comes on, and you hold your breath. Scenes like this tend to catch you off guard. You watch the needle piercing in and out of the skin, and you murmur, "But how could he?" I don’t quite understand what you mean. Like…is it supposed to be difficult? That kind of finesse—I’m good at it, too...

7 likes 1 comment 1
Read story