Barbara Ivanov

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

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“The Red Shoes” by Barbara Ivanov

Submitted to Contest #11

The house was deadly quiet as she looked through her books. She loved the smell of that big edition of fairy tales. It had a large font and colorful, detailed illustrations, not simplified, as in most kids’ books with huge-headed characters, but realistic and shimmering with ornaments. In a few, there were moving elements, like a window that could open or a clock with a moving pendulum and Mary was mesmerized by them.Cheerful, happy world, dangerous, but in its dangerousness a perfect, logical world of excitement and clarity. If you love, yo...

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1989 Writer Painter Dreamer