Bernadette Kiewiet

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2020

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“These words has lost its meaning” by Bernadette Kiewiet

Submitted to Contest #101

These words have lost its meaning, let’s start a brand-new story now …”, boomed from somebody’s radio somewhere on the Cape Flats, far below Table Mountain’s slopes. Sixty-year-old Gudrun jerked her head away from the sound and pushed her opened palms against her ears. The song taunted her, because it echoed the torture of her past, and the present, where a vicious circle paved her life back to hell. It drained ...

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“No Place for Two” by Bernadette Kiewiet

From the opened front door, Bev’s eyes swept over their garden: she glowed when her gaze rested on her shrubs and flower patches, then air exploded from her nose when she pinpointed his trees; the granadilla, olive, lemon, fig and avocado. Thirty years of bondage with him were trapped in each of them. She kicked off the flip-flops from her feet and pulled on her cut-off uggs, that served as garden boots. The worn glove scratched her finger when she pulled it on. She extracted a sliver of dried grass from the grey netted ma...

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Author bio

I love reading and writing. It's been my passion since I came to my senses. My ultimate goal is to have my completed historical novel "Life's Soiled Red Earth" published in the traditional manner. In the mean time, I'm entering all types of writing contests to generate an income for self-publishing should all my submission attempts fail.