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Carina Magyar

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2026

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Royal Screw Up

You know how actresses are. We starve and moan and complain between roles, then jump and cheer and dance when we get one, then suffer the consequences until it’s over.I’d been out of work for 22 months. Part of that was the strike, and part of it was my management team, which I fired in month 17 after the resumption of production was a year old and still nothing came my way. I may sound conceited, but I have an awards shelf that’s not empty. I should at least be given things to do between meaty, artistic parts. Villains or cameos or thankles...

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Field Trip to Ko Ma

Weekly Contest #344

This is the story of the day that didn’t happen.It began like any other day, with Emily’s breakfast. She went to breakfast right away after waking up from bed, not stopping to put on slippers or even her glasses. She jumped out of bed and went straight to the kitchen — her bedroom door leads directly into the kitchen — to pour herself some cereal and milk. She knows her cereal because it comes in a red box. She knows the milk because it comes in a big jug with a little handle. Sometimes the milk is almost too heavy for Emily to lift, but she...

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The Violet Rose

Weekly Contest #344

We were tipsy, so I asked, and their least-popular package was the “Flowers & Farewells” one because everyone was sure they could buy the flowers more cheaply on their own, and they were absolutely correct. But every once in a while, the grieving prioritized convenience over all else, and the mortuary made a tidy profit margin as a result.“Haha, so funny to hear the word ‘tidy’ used in conjunction with the dead,” I said.“Oh no, no,” he replied. “It’s all tidy. So tidy. We clean everything impulsively. We dust nightly. You can’t have a co...

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The Supervillain

Weekly Contest #343

The baby has crowned, its red flesh visible through mats of slick black hair, so I put up my hand with the elbow twisted just so, willing the pulse to flow through me and escape my palm and smack into reality and stop time. I scream as I do this. I always scream when I do this. It hurts, but not in a way I can explain to people who do not have the Gift. It hurts the way a profoundly loud bass note penetrates your sternum, or the way a heartbeat feels suddenly out of place. It hurts from a low, deep place in the innermost sanctum of my body. ...

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Lunch at Chez Diane

Weekly Contest #343

This is another one of those Groundhog Day things. Yes, it’s been done before, but always with a time loop generous enough forThis is another one of those Groundhog Day things. This one’s different. It’s not a whole day. Instead I’m reliving the same fewGroundhog Day, just like that, but this time, instead of a day, I’m doomed to relive the same five seconds over and over, which isGroundhog Day, but five seconds. Took me a few minutes to figure it out. I burp at the beginning of each segment so at first IGroundhog Day, five seconds, burp at ...

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The Rewrite

Weekly Contest #341

In the manner of all parking garage stairwells, this one smelled of piss. The odor increased as she descended, flight by flight. Was this because the bottom landing was the most popular place for men to relieve themselves, or because gravity delivered the piss there? Or was it the air itself, thickening the way ocean water becomes oppressive at greater and greater depths, becoming more suffused with piss by percentage of particle, the usual admixture of nitrogen and oxygen and trace elements giving way to the ammonia of every impatient bladd...

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