Brenda Wilson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

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“Hope on the Other Side of the Fence” by Brenda Wilson

“Let’s go for a walk,” says Kristoff.  A walk, he says as if it isn’t so blistering cold our toes may freeze at any moment.  A walk, as if we have the power to truly go anywhere.  As if there isn’t a fence between us, keeping us from touching, from loving, from the warmth each other provides.  As if we aren’t prisoners.  As if… I shutter.  Momma reminds me every morning ...

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“New Year--Same Me” by Brenda Wilson

New Year Resolutions: I will no longer allow others to steal my happiness. It is my responsibility. No one else’s. When Jimmy calls, I will not answer. I don’t care how cute he looked in that bow tie at the New Year’s Eve party last night. I don’t care that my knees still buckled when he touched my lower back to walk around me. I don’t care that his aftershave is still embedded into my pill...

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“Orphan Train” by Brenda Wilson

Two little eyes and a frown. I draw these onto the fogged-up window as the train chugs into the tunnel. My four-year-old sister, Kate, is asleep on my leg, drooling all over my only clean dress. I want to wake her up. I want to be mad at her for soiling the last thing Mama gave me—the last thing she ever will. But I don’t have the strength. Papa said everything will be alright now. We’d be sa...

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“Serendipitous” by Brenda Wilson

“Fine.” I swallow the lump in my throat. “Then I quit.” I set his coffee down on the Mahogany table and pretend my insides haven’t just turned to jello. The two caterpillar-sized eyebrows on Rob’s head knit into one. “You can’t quit, Keira. Because you’re fired!”  I spin around and rush out of the corner office of my long-time boss, Robert Stoop. I only make it halfway to my thin, wooden, ...

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Author bio

Aspiring fiction author. I have written two full length novels, hopeful to publish them soon!