Amy McMahon

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2020

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“The Girl Who Knew” by Amy McMahon

Submitted to Contest #32

I wake up, and I know. My parents think I’m crazy, and dramatic, and lie for attention. I can’t tell you how many times they roll their eyes when I say, “I just know.” I think they don’t want me to know. They want a normal, happy daughter, who doesn’t claim to predict things. They want another daughter like my sister, with her brilliant grades and motivations that align with theirs. It seems like a normal Tuesday, at first. I wake up, and the thought is instantly in my head, as it usually is when I have a prediction. The ...

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“The Man with the Flower” by Amy McMahon

Submitted to Contest #28

“Vámonos vámonos!” My host father cried, clapping his hands at me and the two Danish girls he was also boarding at his house in Cuzco, Peru. “She will not wait!” And he rushed us out the door into the waiting taxi. My host father, let’s call him Papi, was hardly around. He worked very often, very long hours (although not as long as his wife, I noticed, who then came home and did housework). It was an eventthat he was taking us out—even on my first day, he had delegated his son to pick me up and give me a tour. He had taken an ...

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