Bonnie Clarkson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

Stories (32)

32 Stories

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“Idorean” by Bonnie Clarkson

Submitted to Contest #72

“Christopher’s Personal Idorean Device here. You will want pizza for tonight.” “Thanks for telling me. I’m ready for the recipe you picked out.” Twenty-two-years-old, away from my mother, and the P.I.D. makes the living easy. I like my hair short, but I’ll wait until the program predicts when I want it cut. I do like the new autumn colored shirt it said I would buy. It makes my brown eyes appear larger. Before starting the pizza, the doorbell rang. I sighed when I saw who it was. “I had a prediction you would be home now, Mr. O’Brian,” ...

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“Priorities” by Bonnie Clarkson

Submitted to Contest #67

Priorities My footsteps echoed in the rotunda chamber of the capitol. I looked around and then at my feet. Footsteps. Footsteps of great democratic leaders walked here: Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and. John F. Kennedy. Here I am, a democrat representative, hoping to follow in the footsteps of those great leaders. I imagined great hopes at that time. Footsteps, echoing as mine had, made it impossible to sneak up on me. It was my frenemy Republican Representative James Beckett. “Well, Representative. Keven Montigo,” he said. “How does i...

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Author bio

I have given up trying to get published. I write my stories for some ladies in assisted living home. Like me, most are former farm wives. They connect wth my stories. I do not write for Reedsy to win the contest. I write because I have a drive to. However I will still be following stories on my activity feed. I am a Christian by repenting and believing in Jesus as my Savior. I have had a few devotions published and self published a book called "Effective Praying for the Government".