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The “Prose Pitch” challenge: Write a 500-750 word synopsis of your work-in-progress or completed novel manuscript. Prose will select the top entry for publication on Kindle, Nook, and Kobo. The winner will also be provided a fully customized package of editing, design, and marketing services. Second and third place winners will receive a complimentary copy of a Prose e-book of their choice. Qualifications: You must be at least 16 years of age and be able to deliver a full-length novel if you win. Previously published manuscripts are ineligible. Winners will be announced on December 1, 2015. All genres are admissible. NaNoWriMo participants welcome.
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AyeMich
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Redemption

Jessica Wright has wanted nothing more than to be a writer. For years, she worked extremely hard, doing grunt jobs at small tv stations and local newspapers. She'd been working on the same novel for almost four years, sending it out to publisher after publisher. It was only when she began to give up on herself, that someone took a chance on her and her skill.

Three years later and she's one of the best selling authors of her time. Life is good. She works with people she's come to call friends, she's in a stable and loving relationship and she's on the verge of releasing her newest novel. But then, weird things start to happen.

Bodies of women begin turning up all throughout the city of Brentwood. She pays it no mind, though she's been having really weird dreams about her girlfriend being killed in all sorts of ways. Frank Albane, the Chief of Police and current father figure to Jessica, takes his job seriously and vows to put an end to the murders, along with Daniella Santiago, who just happens to be the lead prosecutor and the girlfriend of Jessica Wright.

While working the case, the Chief starts to notice little things, minuscule things that no one else could ever catch on to. He works endlessly alongside Daniella to bring this case to a close and catch their unsub.

When the last victim get away, she immediately calls the Brentwood PD and the message is relayed to Chief Albane. He takes it upon himself to question her and that's when he realizes why things seem so familiar...he's seen this before. Back in the station, he mulls over the evidence, spending countless house piecing things together until a light bulb clicks: he knows this because he's read it. And he read it in Jessica's first draft of her very first novel.

When he brings Jessica and Daniella up to speed, Jessica shuts down. Her entire world begins to fall apart. With Daniella having worked day in and day out on the case, Jessica turns her attention elsewhere and accepts a dinner invite from Christina James, her assistant. As they are enjoying the night, Christina begins to say the right things at the right times and one thing leads to another until they are interrupted and Jessica realizes the mistake she's just made. Now, she has to fight to bring herself back, fight for her relationship and fight for her innocence because how could one person know something that you've only shown to a handful of people? There are murders happening that mimic her very own writing. She's become the number one suspect.

Fighting for all that she's lost, Jessica has to step out of her very comfortable life and step into the world of a killer; a person who has become hellbent on ruining everything she's built for herself. And soon, those dreams become a reality when she's told that the latest of the unsub's victims is Daniella. Scared out of her mind, she runs to Chief Albane, who tries to reason with her and when that fails, he agrees to let her go through with the plan. With all the bravery she has in her, she steps out of her cookie-cutter life and into the unknown and vows to make it out alive.

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Lsu11
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Silence waits for its turn to speak

A master of tongues disguised

But all who hear it

Will know the truth

For it rings louder than words

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Lsu11
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Do you believe in me?

Dreams encoded in our genes

Passed down through the centuries

Guiding us to beliefs we no longer wish to believe

Yet are too afraid to let go of

in case we are wrong

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Lsu11
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An eye for an eye

Blood stained cheeks

Missing teeth

Choked on words

You dared to speak

Tears try to erase

Flesh laced in blue

Permanent scars

Etched in heart

Redemption

Is no longer your salvation

Scream

But no one will help

the likes of you

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