Elizabeth Belhumeur

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2025

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“Greece or Bust” by Elizabeth Belhumeur

Submitted to Contest #286

That was it. That was the last straw. I don’t have to take this from anyone! She clearly doesn’t understand, nor will she ever if she hasn’t figured it out by now. The anger was pulsing through every part of my body, from my toes to my fingertips, and I felt the steam leaving the hair on top of my head.   I had seen the pictures on the wall at the town pizza parlor, with the white roof tops and crystal-blue ocean down the mountain side, and I always dreamt of running away to this place. While waiting for my small cheese pizza to ba...

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“Sexual Education of the Twentieth Century” by Elizabeth Belhumeur

Submitted to Contest #285

It was the late twentieth century, the 1900’s as my children now call it, and I had just sat down at the desk in the second row of my Catholic school’s fifth-grade health class. Topics of such high humiliation potential required us to leave the confines of our regular classroom, and be escorted to the room, I feel, had all the warmth and coziness Roman Catholicism placed on human coitus; the sterile science lab.  There was a hum, a buzz in the air if you will, of nervous laughter and anticipation. In the days of yore, one response to se...

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“A Leaching Memory” by Elizabeth Belhumeur

Submitted to Contest #284

(Warning: Story contains some references to war and death.) I should’ve known better than to forget more than half of what you said to me, but I will never forget the way you made me feel. I remember studying your face as you sat quietly in your tufted swivel chair made of worn cream-colored corduroy as you rocked gently back and forth in the silence of you; my neighbor’s home. Your hands rested behind your head, and your weathered hazel eyes closed behind your thick, out-of-fashion glasses. With every exhale, you’d allow a breath to collect...

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Author bio

I’m a mom of two by day and a maternity nurse by night, a writer in my dreams.