Erin Keeney

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2023

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“Perilous Playground of Pubescents” by Erin Keeney

Submitted to Contest #246

Perilous Playground of Pubescents“Impossible. You can't do it, Mrs K. we know you can't!!”These little 5th grade shits, she thought, always taunting their substitute teacher. Mrs K was enduring this latest gig at a private school in an affluent Chicago suburb for the last couple of years. She’d finally settled a decades long divorce, her youngest son was off to Boston, and her 70th birthday loomed. Attorneys fees left her bankrupt, and no amount of 'The Secret', as many times as she watched that DVD and practiced the techniques, was&n...

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“Haikuna Casserole” by Erin Keeney

Submitted to Contest #195

That irritating, erratic buzz of fluorescent lights underscored the chatter in the windowless break room. There were a few round tables and metal folding chairs, salt and pepper packets strewn everywhere. We had a couple of vending machines, an old tan colored fridge and boxes of extra plastic gloves and hairnets on every countertop.My day time cafeteria staff at Berwyn Hospital’s long term recovery unit was finally sitting down for a few minutes after assembling dozens of lunch food trays for our patients. We had little down time befor...

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