Bethany Knaff

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2024

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“Now Everyone Can Have a Coffee-Maker at Home” by Bethany Knaff

Submitted to Contest #269

Oh, this looks like a small house, too small. Is this an apartment? I’ve never been in an apartment before! Sitting on the shelf next to the intimidating percolator I imagined I would end up in some delicate French cafe, or an English estate. That’s where the percolator came from, I believe, the noble coffee-maker it is, the Débelloire, all French and brass. It was no longer for sale, though, as old as it was, but it told me all the stories of the large kitchens and the maids, who’d gossip and chatter as they flitted about heating the stove ...

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“I Met the Gancanagh in Glendalough Forest” by Bethany Knaff

Submitted to Contest #268

Although I didn’t know it was what he was at the time, I came face to face with the fae for the first time when I was twenty-seven. I had taken my camera out to the forest in Co. Wicklow and was running my hand back and forth through the water at the lakes edge, shifting through the stones as they caught the sunlight in sparkles of cobalt and sterling. A movement out the corner of my eye catches my attention. He was watching me. Across the shore, half hidden by the shade of the large oak trees, a younger man with dark hair and too-wide mouth...

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