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C Alexis McGregor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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LONG WEEKEND

C Alexis McGregor

Submitted to Contest #53

Do you remember, when you were younger, how time flowed freely, being unencumbered by duty, and a weekend at the cottage simply entailed tossing a suitcase in the trunk cuddled up with a plethora of alcoholic beverage? Welcome to adulthood brimming, overflowing, drowning your hold on life-work balance. Here you sit, a sweating can of cider on the Muskoka chair arm, face warmed by the flickering flames of the fire, part of the circle of your dearest beloved friends. Oh, also, their partners, kids, pets, yeah: just like you remembered! Aroun...

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Believed Dead

C Alexis McGregor

Jocelyn Adkins waved to Hollie, weaving through to their favourite table nestled in a corner framed by picture windows, viewing onto the busy thoroughfare. Two sweating goblets of chardonnay waited on their tabletop. “Hollie, what’s the occasion?” Hollie’s eyebrows arched upward, her blue eyes wide. Jocelyn looked down, fidgeting with the zipper on her handbag. Hollie’s hand caressed the top of Joselyn’s hand. A lone tear traced Jocelyn’s cheek. With a sniff, a swipe of tissue, Jocelyn’s face upturned focusing on her dear...

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March of 77

C Alexis McGregor

Submitted to Contest #44

I wore a floral, green, long-sleeved dress sewed by my mother. My raven black hair lay straight down my back, reaching to my shoulder blades. The parking lot was overfilled with cars and milling with chattering people. As if on auto-pilot, I was seated between my Daddy to my right, and my Uncle Jasper, Mommy’s youngest brother, sat to my left. The hard wooden bench was cool under my thighs, and the bare-back felt bruising to my spine. At twelve years of age, I felt like a grown-up; however, as I look behind, from adult-hood, I recognize...

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