Carolyn McBride

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2020

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“Retired On The River” by Carolyn McBride

When she’d expressed an interest in retiring, Mack had laughed at first. At least until he realized she was serious. Then he’d peered at her through narrowed eyes and shook his head. “People in our business don’t retire. You know that.” “I don’t want to be someone else’s loose end, Mack,” she’d told him. “I want to live long enough to have silver hair and grandchildren.” “Then you’re in the wrong bus...

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“If This House Could Talk” by Carolyn McBride

Write a story that takes place in the same building but in two very different time periods. Adelaide put another stick of wood in the stove and closed the door, feeling every one of her 80 years. She filled the kettle and set it on the flat blacktop. Tomorrow, she would not have her evening cup of tea here.  They were coming to take her away. <...

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“Soccer Ball” by Carolyn McBride

She stood there, just inside the doors, going over her speech one more time, and I couldn’t help but think that I was gazing at history in the making. Herstory, perhaps. I was assigned as her bodyguard the day she decided to run for the White House. The first woman to make it this far, and an Independent at that, there was no way I was turning down this assignment. Rarely was I more than five ...

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Author bio

Carolyn lives deep in the woods of Northern Ontario, north of Sault Ste. Marie. Her muse whispers to her often. Carolyn is addicted to black coffee, good chocolate and would like to sleep more. Carolyn is hard at work on a mystery novel. "Body In The Bush" is a mystery set in the woods of Northern Ontario, Canada. Someone has been murdered, and the body left in the bush for the elements and wild animals to deal with. Who was it? Who murdered them, and how will Detective Anais Quinn ever get to the truth?