Beth Shelton

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2021

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“Nora Jo Learns to Drive” by Beth Shelton

Submitted to Contest #81

The Big House wasn’t big at all, that’s just what they called it. Burl and his mother lived there on her farm which also had a red barn, two mules, four cows, a smokehouse, and an old ramshackle farmhouse where Nora Jo lived with her parents and younger sister.  About a quarter mile down the dirt road behind the Big House, Nora Jo walked, almost skipped, from the farmhouse toward the Big House.            She needed to ask Burl a question.       &nbs...

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“Massacre in Sugarland” by Beth Shelton

Submitted to Contest #80

Iberville Parish, Louisiana 1905 The steam-powered engine rumbled loudly as a young farmhand raked sugar cane from a plantation railcar onto the cane carrier feeder outside a sugar mill. The new machine, a back-saver called Walsh’s Rake, was the latest improvement on the sugar cane farms in Iberville Parish. “Hello!” Dutch, a high school senior, shouted to be heard over the engine noise. The farmhand gave a quick nod in Dutch’s direction, not wanting to take his eyes off the moving rake in case it got hung up or detached from the cables...

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