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Shilo Hood

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

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Nerida & Her River Otter Friend Narelle

Submitted to Contest #335

Nerida is a rather precocious child of five with long auburn hair cascading down her back in natural ringlets, emerald green eyes and an adorable dusting of freckles across her button nose and cheeks. She enjoys spending her days playing outside, running through the forest that surrounds her house and talking to the plants and small animals she comes across. More times than not she finds herself down by the creek that runs through the forest. She enjoys the way it seems to play with the rocks and branches as it bubbles along its path. Sh...

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Crickett and the Storm at Weldon Springs State Park

Submitted to Contest #332

Crickett, the tri-colored Corgi, is out walking in sunshine with her daddy and mommy at their favorite spot, Weldon Springs State Park. When the weather finally got warm enough they all ran to the car so they could go for their first walk of the year. Being cooped up most of the winter is hard on all of them but Crickett mostly. She absolutely loves the snow and spends more time playing in it, eating it or grabbing chunks to bring home so she can chew on them on the rug by the door (the only place she’s allowed to) then she does actually ...

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One Good Deed Changed Everything

Submitted to Contest #331

As Evaine stands before her floor to ceiling bay window looking out at the happy fat snowflakes falling before her she contemplates everything that has transpired over the last couple of hours. Her life had been so happy. Everything had changed in an instant. One decision had cost her way too much. One decision had left her alone with her fear. It started innocently enough with a kind gesture to someone who seemed down on their luck. At the time she did not know that her gesture would lead to a lifetime of fear and pain. She didn’t rea...

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Crickett, the Squirrel and the Tree

Submitted to Contest #327

“I am never listening to Oscar again!” Crickett, the tri-colored Corgi says as she sits up in a tree. She’s not mad but she is scared. Thankfully it is a small tree that has low branches but she is nonetheless still stuck in said tree. How did she get there you ask? Well it began innocently enough and ended with a Corgi in a tree. Something you’d never think you’d see but see it you will. So here’s the story from beginning to end. See what you think of the Corgi stuck in the tree. The day began with breakfast followed by playing outsid...

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Crickett Finds a Secret Gate to Fairyland

Submitted to Contest #320

Crickett is a tri-colored Corgi and her full name, which she loves telling everyone she meets, is Crickett Elizabeth Turtle Hobson. She lives with her parents in a nice quiet neighborhood in a nice quiet town. On occasion though she travels with her parents to new places and a few weeks ago they told her that they were going to go on vacation again. She hopes time goes by fast so that she can see this new place soon. In an attempt to distract herself until it’s time to leave she goes outside as much as possible and plays with her fairy f...

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The Raven

Submitted to Contest #319

As I fly high above the earth I see so many different things. I am a Raven so that’s what I do to get from place to place. As I look down I can see that there are so very many humans roaming around below, especially this time of the year. There are so many that a bird really doesn’t need to do much hunting, we just need to know how to get our food from the humans. The best place to get tons of food is the Yellowstone National Park. Which is where I started my life and most likely will end it. The humans here are easily swayed to give a b...

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The Indie Bookshop Mystery

Submitted to Contest #310

As Corkie looks around her little book shop she smiles brightly. She has owned the shop for a few years now and in that time she has made it a point to surround herself with employees that love to read as much as she does and that they are as avid readers as she is so that they can help the customers and give them as much information as possible. She takes pride in her store and those who work in it. She strives to make the community feel at home in her shop with all the couches, chairs, pillows and blankets they can use to snuggle up wit...

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What Happens at 3 O’clock Stays at 3 O’clock

Submitted to Contest #297

It’s three o’clock in the morning and Hope Carter is where she is every morning that she plans to make her famous peach pie. A couple of years ago Hope’s mother, Patience, had finally told her the secret to her famous peach pie. Hope had been begging her mother for years so she was extremely excited when her mother finally agreed to let her in on the family secret. As she is baking now she recalls the day it finally happened. Hope had been in her mid-twenties then and had longed to be able to make her mother’s famous peach pie. For as...

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The Writer’s New Pen

Submitted to Contest #295

Sammie has been writing for as long as she can remember but has yet to take the next step to get her work out to the masses. That all changes one day while she is wandering around a new bookstore she found in town. The day had begun cloudy and rainy as it sometimes does in the spring and Sammie likes nothing better than wandering around a bookstore when it’s raining and gloomy outside. There’s just something magical about a bookstore especially on gloomy days whether it’s raining or snowing. This store, simply called “Daydreams”, seems e...

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In An Instant

Submitted to Contest #291

When Sidra wakes she appears to be in a very dark and dank room surrounded by what or who she does not know. She can hear very soft, very muffled noises that sound vaguely to her like whispers but no matter how hard she tries she cannot hear the noises any better nor can she see well enough to distinguish anything about her surroundings. To make matters somewhat worse she doesn't know how long she has been here nor does she remember how she got here either. She is completely disoriented by the darkness. So she does all sh...

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From Our First Kiss to Our Last

Submitted to Contest #290

My Dearest Love, It seems like a lifetime ago that we met. We had been so young and so carefree. Now as it often does, life has taken its toll on us both. That first moment though was wonderful and awkward all at the same time. We were innocent then of the ways of men and women. Innocent of so very many things but we have learned together. We shared a lot of firsts together from the first time we held hands until the first time we had a child. One of my most precious memories though is of our first kiss. I don’t...

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