Elizabeth Belhumeur

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2025

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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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