Ashly Callaway

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2024

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“Night Picnics” by Ashly Callaway

Submitted to Contest #287

Night Picnicsby Ashly Callaway Nora’s SisterOnce a week, Nora goes on night picnics. She walks our neighborhood on the nights before recycling pickup and says you can tell a lot about a family by what they’re consuming. In bare feet she stoops over each plastic recycling bin and shops for the things that make her feel better: Prego spaghetti sauce jars, empty skim milk jugs, Orange Crush cans, Coors Light cans, sometimes a lovely but empty bottle of wine, sharp opened tins of sardines, a folded cardboard box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. But sh...

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“Of Wisdom and War” by Ashly Callaway

Submitted to Contest #285

Of Wisdom and Warby Ashly Callaway Minerva Park Neighborhood, 1988 “Hi, Sue Ellen. Barbara left a message on the machine last night -- something about another party where she wants to sell us things. Did she call you?” Jackie asked.  “She did,” Sue Ellen said.  “Isn’t it funny how she flits from one money-making enterprise to another? Avon, then Amway, now Tupperware!” “I know,” agreed Sue Ellen. “What season did she say you were at that last gathering?” “What do you mean, ‘season’?” asked Jackie. “Remember? We were in your living...

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