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Celia Miles

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2024

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Dandelion Birthday

Celia Miles

Dandelion Birthday On my fortieth birthday I wrote a poem. A lousy poem, naturally. What other kind could anyone write on a “hump” birthday when she’s either happily settled into marriage or happily settled out? I was neither. Close to high noon. I sunned lizard-lie in the lounge chair, aware of the plastic cutting into my near-flabby thighs. Another few months of indecisiveness and chocolates for lunch, indecisiveness and chips for dinner, and wine and cheese for a mid-evening snack and I would dissolve i...

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Attic Talk

Celia Miles

Submitted to Contest #280

Attic Talk “Hey, look at this. I was some kind of cute back then, even with that beehive hairdo.” “You were flirting with the damn photographer. On our honeymoon.” “In one second, one glance, you can tell that? You didn’t even look–” “I looked. Is this trash going? It’s nothing but old cards and stuff. My God, you must have saved every card you ever got.” “Everyone WE ever got. And all four valentines you gave me.” “I was working overtime those first years. And a valentine cost about as much as my lunch, if you remember. You didn’t have ...

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