Christee Fontanez

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2024

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“Gloria” by Christee Fontanez

Submitted to Contest #280

Content warning: Substance abuse, sexual encounter, self-image issues“Hey, Gloria, last call. You want another?” the bartender glances at the clock and calls out to the woman perched at the end of the bar. Her head swirling in a blue-grey cloud of cigarette smoke as she exhales.The jukebox crackles with a Laura Branigan tune, “Gloria”; the sound of the '80s echoing in a bar that hasn’t seen a renovation since that time. The dark wood interior, faded beer signs, and outdated light fixtures feel like a specter of a forgotten place.She looks up...

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“Yellow” by Christee Fontanez

Submitted to Contest #273

Allison steps out of her house and smiles at the crispness of the late morning air. Her brown hair pulled back with a navy scrunchy. Red lipstick and a pair of chunky, white headphones that blue tooth to her phone. It’s her favorite time of year. Fall in the Appalachians is the best place in the world to live. Chilly days with the full sun shining on her face. She likes to think it’s her mother looking down on her from Heaven.She’s headed to the Apple Harvest Fall Festival in a nearby town; the one her mother used to take her to when she was...

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Author bio

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a writer. All through school and college, with ultimately a BS degree in Psychology, you couldn’t find me without a pen in my hand and a song in my head. Then life sort of gets in the way, doesn’t it? Many decades later, with a daughter grown, my husband and I travel full-time in a vintage Airstream trailer with our son. Back and forth between the Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia and various beaches around Florida, running our online marketing business. Between travel, work and homeschool, I have finally found quiet pockets of time during my day and creative words are once again flowing through my “penny pencil”, and music, as you will find reading my short-stories, is my muse.