Cynthia Porter

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2022

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“What if all the You’s were Different You’s?” by Cynthia Porter

Submitted to Contest #260

Chapter ? The Middle.“When you are married your happiness is doubled and your sadness is cut in half.” It was the most heartfelt message I received in my wedding cards. The rest were platitudes and generic well wishes. It was so simple yet moving. I wish that it had been true. ——Instead, days turned into years turned into resentment and hurtful words, and pain that wouldn’t resolve on its own. You were lost in a world that no one can reach, not even yourself, it seems. And I, unable to reach you, and no longer in touch with myself ...

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““Everything but the Bagel”” by Cynthia Porter

Submitted to Contest #199

Everything but the Bagel {or, The End is the Beginning & and the Beginning is the End?}                                                                  “I like your backpack” I thought as I followed the stranger ...

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““Everything but the Bagel” ” by Cynthia Porter

Submitted to Contest #199

“I like your backpack” I thought as I followed the stranger onto the airport shuttle. I had a plan when I got here, but that plan was disintegrating with each step. Follow your heart I had thought, or maybe I thought I heard……from that internal voice that whispers and tugs at your heart, but logic requires otherwise. I had arrived in one piece after frantically deciding to follow this whisper of a dream, one Saturday afternoon, when I should have been tackling the cough syrupy monotony of everyday life. Middlebelt-Metropolitan’s concrete jun...

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