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Claudia Cook

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2020

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Neighbors from hell

Claudia Cook

Submitted to Contest #97

We’ve all had them. Neighbors we love, neighbors we like, and then there are neighbors that really get under our skin. I’ve had such neighbors. It wasn’t just one neighbor. It was a whole family of neighbors. A mother, farther, and three boys who seemed to think our yard was their yard to play baseball in. I didn’t mind the first couple of times, but the fourth or fifth time is when it got annoying. I kept warning my mother that a window was going to get broken if we let them keep that they’d break aa window, but she assured me it wo...

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Bourbon Balls

Claudia Cook

Submitted to Contest #71

It was nearing wintertime and every winter my great great grandmother would make bourbon balls and I had to deliver them to the neighbors. It was like an eleventh commandment I had to follow. I desperately wanted to make them myself and deliver them to the neighbors during this crazy time. Only problem was she had passed when I was twelve…and I could not exactly remember how to make them. I had been having memory lapses lately and not the good kind. I think it might have been the weather or something She...

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With great power...

Claudia Cook

Submitted to Contest #58

I was babysitting my younger cousin. Babysitting him for the first time. I felt like Supergirl. No, whose more powerful than Supergirl? Um-that one superhero more powerful than Supergirl. Like I could take on Supergirl and defeat her. Of course, I wasn’t doing it alone. My grandmother was helping me as he was only a few months old. But since she couldn’t bend over an pick him up and do even the simplest things, it was my job to do most of the work. Then he started crying and….well let me start from the beginning &...

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Behind the Eight ball

Claudia Cook

Submitted to Contest #44

It was the era of flappers. Of speakeasies and prohibition. Of The great Gatsby and The sun also rises. The era Agatha Christie wrote her debut novel.It was also the era Kitty had twins with a man she thought she loved and who loved her. She didn’t marry Frank for money for Kitty’s family was rolling in money. It wasn’t for status either as Kitty’s family was well off. She thought Frank was the bee’s knees and she told her father soKitty’s father, Jonathan, owned a local speakeas...

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Tough Times

Claudia Cook

Submitted to Contest #40

It was supposed to be a normal night for Maggie. She, her mom and her stepdad were supposed to sit down to have a nice dinner Then they sprung the news on her. They were getting a divorce. She sighed, shaking her head. This was going to be her mom’s second divorce in just a span of 5 years. She heard her computer make a ding noise and opened the tab that had messenger on it. It was a message from her friend, Layla. Layla: Hey girl! What’s up? Maggie didn’t want to tell Layla what was going on. She wouldn’t understand. Her parent...

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Abandoned and Stolen (based off true events)

Claudia Cook

Submitted to Contest #31

It's the day I had been dreading for weeks. Laundry Day I hated doing laundry. But there's only so long it can pile up before it starts falling out of the basket or smelling up the room. I think I would much instead prefer my room smell of lavender, not sweaty bras and tee shirts. Gathering up my laundry pods and basket, I began making my way to the basement of my dormitory. The basement of my dorm wasn't as creepy as one might think unless you went down there during October. I entered the laundry room or hang out area, my ea...

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A phone call from Dad

Claudia Cook

Submitted to Contest #30

Prompt: Write a story about someone who receives an unexpected phone call. The last thing I needed in class was for my phone to ring…while the professor was talking. Professor Bottoms had this rule that if your phone rings in class and you have to go out, you might as well have not come at all.I swear I thought I had put my phone on vibrate because my ring tone is not one of this common ring tones that people can easily ignore. No. It’s the theme song to a popular 90’s sitcom. ...

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