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Cadine Vernon

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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The Nomads

Submitted to Contest #130

No one alive remembered the ‘Great Burn’, it was ancient history now that morphed and lost its truths as it moved from tongue to tongue. The one thing that remained constant in its tellings was that the event was frightful and countless many died, without leaving so much as bones behind. That day everything burned, with ferocious flames, with intense heat, and without prejudice. It must have been a hundred years ago, maybe two hundred years ago, but it shaped and altered what was left behind. And it had left very little behind; just a few lo...

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What Tore Us Apart

Marcy sat around her potter’s wheel at 3:00am on Wednesday morning in her small basement studio. This studio was built by her late husband Rod – to think Rod had just died 4 days ago, it barely felt real. Rod loved building things with his hands and that was one of the things that had drawn her to him. She was also a creative – painting, embroidery, furniture upholstery and ceramics; Marcy was always making. She gathered up her clay with no real plans of what she wanted to create in mind. With a cut of the stoneware clay plopped and centred,...

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The Good Doctor

Submitted to Contest #116

WednesdayThe digital display on David’s dashboard said 5:43am. He smiled as he pulled into the small parking lot of Paediatric Cardiology Associates on Swan Ave. He veered the car to the left and onto the parking space right under the large cypress tree. Prime real estate. His plan worked perfectly, coming in early did the trick. He wasn’t about to waste his breathe arguing with that fossil. Old things should die and make way for youth. Looking in the rear-view mirror, he straightened his green striped tie and checked his reflection. Green c...

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