Carolyn Brown

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

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“Chainsaw Revival” by Carolyn Brown

Submitted to Contest #161

High-gloss vessels of all sorts and colours were lined up on the windowsill, the narrowest of all the formerly available surfaces, and they baked again each day in the summer sunshine. Shafts of sun traversed the floor and walls in a daily search for something, pausing for long periods to examine the textures and colours of all the objects they could reach. They slipped in slow motion across pots and goblets, some holding shaping tools and random utensils that had collected there. They probed stacks of packaged clay, they l...

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“What Art is All About” by Carolyn Brown

Submitted to Contest #152

The contemplative woman was taking a long time looking at each painting. Longer than uninterested people usually looked. The artist, Adelaide, wondered what she was thinking. Maybe this one wasn’t pondering the usual, totally unique things that sprang into people’s heads at an art show. Why would anyone paint that? Does it match my couch? Why does it cost so much? How do I sneak out without making a donation? This woman seemed a little more earnest in her art appreciation. Adelaide dared to ho...

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“The Airing” by Carolyn Brown

Submitted to Contest #149

COVID came to their town, as it did all the others. At first the citizens believed that their distance from the cities would protect them, as in olden days when the miasma was expected to hover above a populace and not spread through individuals, but modern realization soon proved that humans, as always, were the biggest threat to humans. People left the town, of course, going in their cars to visit relatives or in planes to visit beaches, and then they returned to the safety of home and the normalcy of work and school and church...

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