Catherine Stockwell

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2021

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“Guardian Angel” by Catherine Stockwell

Submitted to Contest #261

Saturday, June 22 Well, it looks like my baby brother, Tommy, has messed up again. The new wife, the one called Jolene, left him, and she took the air fryer! I knew from the moment I met her (skinny little thing she was), that she was no good and just after whatever money Tommy still has left. I took the 145 bus over to visit my brother this afternoon. You should have seen him, sitting on his screened porch, staring out at his overgrown yard…the sight of him! He was wearing a raggedy old flannel shirt and a pair of sweatpants, looking like h...

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“The Golden Frog Hotel” by Catherine Stockwell

Submitted to Contest #90

Beside me in the passenger’s seat, Dad’s eyes are closed. If he is not already asleep, he is close to it. He is in his eighties now, and this is where I usually find him, in a sort of dreamy, half-awake state. “Are you alright, Dad,” I ask again. He sighs, gives me a small smile and a nod. “Fine, just fine,” he says. This is the answer he always gives, an answer he doesn’t have to dig too deeply to find.It is a Saturday morning, and we are leaving Panama City, driving into the mountains, to a small market village called El Valle de...

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