Elizabeth Scott

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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“Earl Grey and Jasmine” by Elizabeth Scott

Submitted to Contest #32

The wind blew gently, caressing the old woman’s face as she walked across the flower garden to the wicker table and chairs set up under the old oak tree. The spring afternoon was particularly lovely as she noticed the peonies had finally come into full bloom. Peonies were her favorites with their big petals that looked like they were bunched together with hardly any room to breathe. She had plenty of different flowers in the garden; roses, marigolds, buttercups, irises just to name a few and she loved the way the sun filtered ...

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“The Patch” by Elizabeth Scott

Submitted to Contest #31

The old green Ford rolled to a stop on the gravel driveway in front of the clap board house as Derrick opened the driver’s side door with a creak to exit the pickup. The late July afternoon was already hot and humid, making his work shirt stick to his back with sweat and the first thing he wanted as he walked towards the front door was an ice cold beer. The day had been a long and trying one at the city school board where he did his time as a maintenance worker to make a ‘living’ as he jokingly called it. Over worked and under...

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