Elaine March

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

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“Dear Author” by Elaine March

Submitted to Contest #266

Dear Author,  I suppose I should be grateful you didn't begin my story with waking up. Nor did birdsong factor in. You'd be surprised by the amount of creative pieces that slide across my desk beginning with birdsong. Then again, perhaps the ubiquitous birdsong I suffer at the hands of fledgling writers is your doing. Everything is your doing, isn't it? It wasn't that difficult to deduce, I must say.  I've been a disciple of the written word for nearly fifteen years. I have poured over page after page since I discovered a weathered...

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“Madame Desrosiers’s Flower Shop” by Elaine March

Submitted to Contest #161

CW: Contains mentions of dismemberment. The crush of bodies pressed in on Julia from all sides, threatening to sweep her down the city streets on and on forever like a leaf in a current.  It could be worse she thought, negotiating around another puddle and nearly crashing into a man with a leather briefcase. The smell of wet pavement was better than the odor of sickness that infiltrated every nook of their flat. Likewise the light patter of rain was musical compared to her mother’s wet coughing.  She rounded the corner and c...

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