Anna E. Walters

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2022

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“Teacher of the Year” by Anna E. Walters

Submitted to Contest #213

Teacher of the Year Let me tell you, retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Here I am, Barb Marraine, 1999 Teacher of the Year for Castle Hills School District, sitting on my front porch with a crossword puzzle and a warmed-up ice tea, wondering why kids these days don’t play outside anymore. Of course I knew things would slow down when I left the classroom, but my life these days would bore a three-toed sloth. Sure, I volunteer at the food pantry now and then, and my first tropical cruise last month was marvelous, but on my pension,...

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“Between the Pages” by Anna E. Walters

Submitted to Contest #176

It was nearly three a.m. when Edith decided that sleep wasn’t coming, and there was no point in staying in bed. She had hardly slept at all in the past week and was starting to wonder if the ability to fall asleep was a skill a body could simply forget. It was the sort of silly notion that made perfect sense when she was alone in bed, staring at the ceiling in a house that was far too quiet, and that seemed to get smaller with every passing day, as if her breath by itself was not enough to keep it from collapsing. She threw off the quilt an...

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