Barbara McLay

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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“Petunia” by Barbara McLay

Submitted to Contest #38

I did not think I would be bothered by a quarantine. I'm used to being alone. I'm a divorced male, a retired civil engineer, and I live alone in a cabin on fifty wooded acres. I write a humorous column for our local weekly paper, more to keep my mind occupied than for the paycheck. I like to read and do crossword puzzles on line. I chat with family and friends on email, and there's always something on Netflix or the television. I never felt isolated.Last year there was a deadly virus killing old farts like me. Well, it killed others, too, or...

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“The Heirloom” by Barbara McLay

Submitted to Contest #37

Two children had discovered Wilma’s discarded heirloom in the mud of the evaporating lake. Now she would have to get it away from them and leave the place she had lived all her life, where her ancestors had fought the original inhabitants to take the land, where they had chopped trees with ancient axes to build crude homes and clear the land for farming. She’d lived here ninety years. The last twenty years, she’d lived alone. Her husband was buried in an oak-shaded grave on the northern-most corner of her seventy acres. He lay near her paren...

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