Christine Casey

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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“Betsy’s Rainy Day” by Christine Casey

Submitted to Contest #195

Betsy was in a mood. Normally she worked quietly in her cube leaving only to go to the occasional meeting. She rarely ventured off her floor except to go to the lunchroom. Even that was rare as she usually ate her lunch in front of her computer while surfing the internet for the latest news on her favorite celebrity. Today felt different. It started when she walked into the building and the man in front of her, shook his wet umbrella, soaking her in the process. She waited patiently to smile a...

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“Waiting For Henry” by Christine Casey

Submitted to Contest #49

Norah had fired a gun exactly twice in her life. Once, when her babysitter had left a gun on the kitchen table. She did not know if it had been loaded but she did remember her five-year-old self picking up the gun and pulling the trigger. Her sitter had rushed in and yelled at her for playing with the weapon. Didn’t she know that she could have shot the next-door neighbor who was in a wheelchair because she had cerebral palsy? When she told her mother this story many years later after her own children were grown, it occurred to h...

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