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Clara Martin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021

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The Silent Witness

Clara Martin

It was Saturday, January 20, 2018. I can remember this day as if it happened yesterday. I had gotten off work at the Emergency Clinic and needed to stop by the Zippy Market convenient store to pick up a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread. It was 11:30 pm; the regular grocery stores were closed. I had to get gas for work the next morning, so I parked my car in front of the gas pump. The lights inside the store looked a little dim, but I could still see Mr. Chen at the register. I waited outside the door and he saw me, beckoning for me to come...

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Betrayal of Trust

Clara Martin

Betrayal of TrustMarion Rose was one of my best friends for thirty eight years. Before her husband Ralph passed away suddenly, we all went on many of couples trips. Our last trip was to Jamaica on a Carnival Winds Cruise. Ralph and Marion had been married for thirty six years. All of us met our husbands when we were in college. She seemed to have lost her will to live after Ralph died. Marion no longer took phone calls or visited with anyone. Then out of the blue about a year later, she had met a man named Alexander Wilder off of the Match.c...

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Enjoying the Snow

Clara Martin

I love watching the snow fall from my bedroom window. Living here in Alabama, we rarely get snow in the winter time. This year we got up to eight inches of snow. I was so excited to here that school was being cancel for this whole week. My mom is a teacher at my elementary school and she was out of school with us. My brother Ryan and I sat down to breakfast, watching the man on the news talk about all the school closings. I couldn't wait to go outside and play in the snow.“Can we go outside?” I asked.“After you eat breakfast,” said Mommy.“Ye...

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Forgiveness For A Dying Man

Clara Martin

Percy Styles sits in the waiting room of his doctors office along side his wife Victoria. He had a biopsy two weeks ago and was called in to get the results. Dr. Ellington comes in with his glasses down over his nose with Percy's folder. Victoria reaches for Percy's hand as the doctor sits behind his desk.“Is everything alright doc?' asks Percy.“I'm afraid I have some bad news,” says Dr. Ellington. “You have stage IV pancreatic cancer.”“Oh my God,” say Victoria.“What should we do now?” asks Percy.“It's so advanced Percy,” says Dr. Ellington....

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The Ghost Train of Pepper Ridge County

Clara Martin

There's a century old tale about a ghostly train that appears before the stroke of midnight in the quiet town of Pepper Ridge County in Columbia, Alabama. The train was derailed by another train during 1869. It killed over two hundred passengers. After this happened, the train track that the accident occurred on was closed off for future trains to go through. People claim to have witness to hear the distant sound of the whistle, the rumble of wheels click clacking across the old unused track, and seeing the eerie glow of the trains light. A ...

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The Family Heirloom

Clara Martin

William Charles Harris received Nadine, a vintage acoustic guitar a cherished family heirloom when he turned twenty one years old. His father Raymond was given the guitar by his father Melvin and it has been passed down from generation to generation to every male child when he became a man. Nadine belonged to William's great great grandfather Atticus Theodore Harris. Atticus was a local blues man that played at juke houses in the bottoms of Mississippi where most of the African American people lived in the 1920's. Juke houses were a big week...

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The Mystery Illness

Clara Martin

A mysterious illness has plagued the town of Palmer's Grove, Florida. After The Harvest Plenty Café opened, there was a terrible outbreak of a mysterious illness. The symptoms of the illness were: severe skin inflammation, painful blisters, stomach cramps and skin sensitivity to sunlight. The owners of the café Perry and Minnie Riley was confused of what in their café was causing the people to have become so sick so fast. Dr. Browne came in and run test samples on several of the food items to be sent off to a lab in Winchester to be tested. ...

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Snowbound for Christmas

Clara Martin

It's Monday December 23, 2023 at 8:30 in the morning. My lift just dropped me off at the Portland International Airport here in Maine. I had been so excited for months to finally see my grandparents Agatha and Winston Riley. I was with my grandparents since I was three years old after my mother ran off with an old boyfriend. I love the small town of Cherry-town, Alabama. It was named for the sweet cherry orchids that grew there year around. After graduating from college four years ago to pursue better opportunities, I moved to Portland Maine...

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The Music Box

Clara Martin

It was a cold and windy Autumn afternoon in Clarksville, Alabama. Macy Grant was returning to her home from working a double shift at the St. Vincent Memorial Hospital where she was a registered nurse. She notices sitting on her porch a small intricately wrapped package on her doorstep. After picking up the package, Macy notices that there was no note or indication of who had left it.The last thing that she had ordered that was delivered was her uniforms and that was three weeks ago from a local shop in town. Macy picks up the package and ta...

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The Last Confession

Clara Martin

The Last ConfessionIt was Friday September 15, 2023 . I was dreading catching my flight to Chicago to see my friend Gwen Coleman for the last time. I remember going to the doctor with her when she was first diagnosed with lung cancer. I guess I was ignorant thinking that only people who smoked got lung cancer. Gwen never smoke cigarettes a day in her life and she became ill with the disease. It started with a cough that didn't seem to go away even with treatment. Then the shortness of breath. I finally persuaded he to go to see a doctor. By ...

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The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

Clara Martin

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel Hansel and Gretel were portrayed as sweet little children who were left alone in the woods by their parents. Then they came upon an house of an evil witch who lured them into a trap with her house being made of goodies. The story goes on to say that the evil old witch fatten up the children so that she could cook and eat them. At the end of the story they killed the witch by tricking her to get into the oven and she was burned to death. This is a false story told by people who don't really know the true ...

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First Date Disaster

Clara Martin

First Date Disaster During the summertime, we had vocational bible school at our church. I was in the tenth grade at the time when I befriended a boy named Terrence. Terrence was tall, light complexed and had curl sandy hair. I like him from the start not because he was good looking but because he was so funny. His mother Carol and my mom Brenda were good friends when they were going to school together. The two thought it would be cute for their kids to start dating. At the time I thought it was a good idea too. Terrence was such a gentlem...

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Tales of Amethyst

Clara Martin

Tales of Amethyst It's not easy being a witch today, unlike back in the old country. I come from a generation of Anglican witches. We don't believe in the dark magic. I have seen first hand the pain that it has caused to many people. My grandmother witness a dark witch being pulled by her hair in the depth of hell by evil spirits for all her wrong doings. She told me that it was terrible sight to see. The evil witch would scream for days on in of being tortured for her sinful ways. It was a omen for the rest of us who was willing to cross o...

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The Little Girl with the Crimson Ribbon

Clara Martin

The Little Girl with the Crimson Ribbon In the fall of 1976, I had butterflies in my stomach about going to school after our long summer break. Over the summer, I had cataract surgery and my mom had to go with me to talk to my teacher. We didn't have a car back then, so the bus driver was kind enough to let my mom ride the school bus with me. I don't think the other student understood why a grown woman would be riding the bus to school. A little boy with red hair and freckles kept looking over his seat at her in amazement. “It's my first d...

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The Neighbor

Clara Martin

The Neighbor September 8, 2018 Dear Diary, I find myself having impure thoughts about my thirty seven year old neighbor. He's a really sweet young man with milk chocolate skin, clean shaven, muscular build and so tall that I have to look towards the sky to see his handsome smile. Sometimes I find myself feeling ashamed of these erotic feelings that are surging through my body every time I see him coming outside checking his mailbox or just mowing his lawn. For goodness sake, I have sons this boys age. I'm a lonely 54 year old woman and I ha...

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