reedsymarketplace
Assemble a team of professionals
reedsystudio
The writing app for authors
reedsylearning
Writing courses, events and memberships
reedsydiscovery
Get your book reviewed
reedsyprompts
Weekly writing prompts and contests
Writing courses, events and conferences
Upcoming events
Write Stunning Sentences
November 12, 2026
The Art of Trope Marketing
November 16, 2026
Landing Your Literary Agent
November 22, 2026
It's All Been Done Before: Writing Myths and Legends
November 23, 2026
Learn how to succeed as a writer from the best in the business.
Every writer needs a Studio
Check out our writing app for authors!
Menu
More apps built by Reedsy
Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2022
Weekly Contest #379
No one lit fires for strangers anymore. Yet Ilyan’s was already burning when he invited the old man in. When the grain ran out, after everything fell apart, people didn’t starve all at once. Most still bartered. Others stole, while some pleaded. And a small few learned a fourth verb no one dared say aloud. He fed his small fire with the last splinters he’d pried from ruins far from his shelter. Dry as bone, the wood broke apart at the slightest pressure. A dented pot sat over the fire, its bottom punched full of crude holes. The couscous was...
Weekly Contest #345
You’re lucky if the erasure gave any warning. Some places just thinned out overnight. Though they did not destroy his land all at once. The hill shrank day by day, until it flattened like a sheet pulled tight, pale and featureless. The hill was gone. The house was gone. The grave too. Nowhere to stay. No one, nothing, to stay for. So he finally walked away from it and went where the displaced were told to go, for now. The settlement had been built from prefabricated rectangles arranged around a gravel courtyard. “Please ensure your life do...
Oops, you need an account for that!
Log in with your social account:
Or enter your email:
2 likes
