Allison M

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

Stories (2)

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“A Certain Calling” by Allison M

Submitted to Contest #78

He was going to be an artist, that much was certain. More specifically, he was going to be a potter. It was his Calling. He had it all planned out — there was a class opening at the community center next week which would serve as the jumpstart to his career. He had already spent countless, screen-lit hours sifting through videos of wheel-throwing and reviews of clays and kilns, glazes and tools. He had tapped in the numbers of three overdrawn credit cards, and now the corner of his living room played host to an array of glossy new equip...

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“Barren” by Allison M

Submitted to Contest #77

The Iowa air is dense, syrupy. It carries the scent of the earth, of the fields, and of the corn. The towering stalks clog it with the heat of the July sun like a greenhouse. A breeze ripples the topmost leaves of the endless rows, but it does not reach Anna down in the thick of it, where her ankles bend and twist with the uneven ground. She looks forward through the tangled green even as her work-gloved fingers skim the clutter of leaves on her right, searching. Sensing a slight variation in thickness in one of the leaves, her hand automati...

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Author bio

Hello! I'm new to Reedsy, but I'm excited to get started and be a part of what looks like such a lovely community :) I very much appreciate honest, blunt critiques, so if you read anything I've written and have something to say, say it! I'd be thrilled to receive your feedback and opinions - positive or negative - about my work. As for a bit about me, I'm a student of French, a lover of drawing and painting, and an extravert very much ready for the world to allow people-y things again. I have a husband, a cat, and a puppy, and they're all pretty great. I also like *attempting* to bake pretty things. And, I have now exhausted the list of interesting facts about me. Feel free to say hello if you somehow happen upon my profile ^_^