Andy Cockrell

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022

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“Closure” by Andy Cockrell

Submitted to Contest #212

Keith, If I’m not the last person you expected to hear from, I’m probably the last person that you want to hear from. I’ve written and rewritten this message dozens of times over the past year. It’s easier to be brave when I’m crafting a message or when I’m organizing my thoughts to craft it. Whenever I finish, I invariably have a panic attack and delete instead of send. Until now. As much as I’ve meditated on reaching out to you, on what I’d say (or write), my brain feels as muddled as it did whenever I hunted and pecked the words in the ...

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“Old-Timey Petunias” by Andy Cockrell

Submitted to Contest #138

Old-Timey Petunias It was the middle of May, our fourth Spring as spouses, and I did not expect us to see a fifth. Our marital road had become riddled with potholes of unmet expectations and growing discontentment. We weren’t speaking one another’s love language, and we weren’t speaking much that was meaningful in the English language either. That was when a horticultural development threatened to usher in divorce proceedings before becoming the unlikely catalyst of renewed wedding vows. Going out to eat on Saturday nights should have fe...

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