Angelyn Bales

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“Falling, for Better or Worse” by Angelyn Bales

Submitted to Contest #56

My parents met on a blind date, and that didn’t turn out so well. Let me clarify. After dating for a year, my mother proposed to my father. Now they’ve been married more than four decades, and each one phones me to complain about the other. I’m not sure I would call theirs a love–hate relationship; they simply tend to rub each other the wrong way. They don’t claim to be best friends as I’ve heard some couples say. So, recently, when a married friend of mine, Mary Leigh, wanted to set me up with a single guy she knew, I was hesitant. She ke...

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As a freelance editor, I've enjoyed editing other people's poems, short stories, novels, and memoirs. Now it's time for me to return to writing. I'm inspired by the wonderful short stories on reedsy.com.