On a lighthouse keeper’s final shift, a storm brings three solitary lives onto the same course. A story of rescue, late chances, and finding a way home.
Also published in PROMPTED, Issue 04.
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Stories.
Three contest winners and three shortlisted stories. Begin with a familiar world—or step into a stranger one.
Reedsy Prompts
Contest winners
Three stories awarded first place
in the weekly writing contest.
In the Arctic’s long polar night, a marine biologist sets out across a landscape of ice and darkness, carrying the absence of the man she loves.
Explore the storyA potter begins to lose feeling in her hands as her daughter prepares to leave for America. Amid clay, lanterns, and old stories, she searches for a way to hold on—and let go.
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Shortlisted stories
Three further stories recognized
on the contest shortlist.
A professor enters a restricted library collection and finds a book of unsettling cases. The more closely he reads, the harder it becomes to keep moral judgment at a comfortable distance.
Explore the storyA commuter suspects that office life has turned everyone into the walking dead. When a blackout brings the city to a halt, the machinery of his ordinary day finally breaks down.
Explore the storyA prosecutor and a defense attorney share cigarettes, cases, and a friendship strained by the work. A domestic-violence prosecution tests the distance between their ideals and the system they serve.
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In print
04February 2025
Reedsy’s literary magazine
Lost and Found
in PROMPTED.
Selected for the fourth issue of PROMPTED, a collection of twelve prize-winning stories guest edited by David Restaino.
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