Carol Styron

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022

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“Strange Surroundings” by Carol Styron

STRANGE SURROUNDINGS“Did you hear that noise last night?” said eighty-three-year-old Florence Sachs as she hobbled on her cane. She spoke to her next-door neighbor Clara Feeley at 11:00 a.m. on a Sunday in a small suburban community.“I think you had too many shots of whiskey last night. Of course, I heard the noise. It was so loud, got me nervous, I didn’t go back to sleep until 3:00 a.m. this morning,” said eighty-four-year-old Clara. “To top everything off, I kept getting up...

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“Lunch Time” by Carol Styron

                                                      Lunch TimeEvery Saturday afternoon for the last fifteen years, they have been meeting for lunch once a month. That’s a lot of lunches, but for best friends that met in college and hit it of...

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“Picture Perfect” by Carol Styron

                  PICTURE PERFECT My earliest memory of my irrational fear of not wanting my picture taken was when I was in the 1st grade. One autumn day, my teacher,  Mrs. Goosby announced that a class picture would be taken the following month. She insisted all the children wear their best outfits and groom properly.         After her announcement...

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“Love Is All There Is-Tailor-Made” by Carol Styron

           “Do you have a book called ‘Love Is All There Is-Tailor Made’ by Sheila Davis?” A twenty-three-year-old Marsha Hunter anxiously asked the 41-year-old librarian, Julia Russell. Julia looked over her black-rim glasses and then froze for a minute as she sat behind her desk at The New York City Public Library. Something about the young mixed-raced-looking woman seemed so familiar to her. It wasn’t just her appearance but her mannerisms and the way she spok...

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“Only In My Dreams” by Carol Styron

Only In My Dreams          "I have been up for three days now; I am exhausted. I spent endless nights drinking black coffee, manically flipping cable channels like I was off my meds, all in an effort to stay awake. I had to stay awake, I couldn’t fall asleep or I would die!"          My dilemma began one summer evening about 7:00 p.m. After watching a horror movie on an odd...

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Author bio

Hello, Readers and Writers!! My name is Carol D. Styron, and I joined Reedsy earlier this year. I love writing short stories and longer ones; I've self-published three novels. I have been writing off and on for more than 25years. I've written, poems, short stories, and novels. Joining Reedsy has helped me get to keep my writing muscles flowing.