Diane Young

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

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“Mr. Kendall” by Diane Young

Submitted to Contest #51

“Mrs. Campbell, is it all right if I go out for a bite to eat before everyone starts to arrive?” I smile at my assistant’s formality and then, once again remind myself of the three decades difference in our ages.  “Go ahead, Kristen … I’m sorry, not only have I been working you to the bone but I’ve also been starving you to death!”  Once alone, I enjoy the complete silence in the gallery, knowing that within an hour it will be bustling with art patrons as well as the media for the opening of my retrospective art show. I am e...

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“The Hairline Crack” by Diane Young

Submitted to Contest #44

Write a story that starts by establishing its setting in a different time period — without explicitly stating what that period is.   I want so desperately to sleep but I can’t! Dave’s snoring and his hot breath on the back of my neck doesn’t help. It’s been a rough week. I can’t get the televised images of the funeral procession out of my mind. I get up and take one of the Valium prescribed by Dr. McCarthy and return to bed. I lie staring into the dark.   My eyelids are heavy as I peer across the sunlit room at the clock on the dre...

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