Erin Olig

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2022

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3 Stories

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“Holodomor” by Erin Olig

Submitted to Contest #138

Ukraine, 1932My name is Solomiya, and I have a story to tell you. I will speak it as I walk through the night, for it is dark and cold and the sound of my voice may fill the emptiness. Stranger, If you are beside me, I will not be alone. You are my mother, father, sister, brother. May I call you Mishka? I have done a terrible and wonderful thing tonight, and my hands are black and seared with the evidence of my crime. I was, at dawn, just a girl of sixteen, starving to death amongst my peop...

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“The Staying Game” by Erin Olig

Submitted to Contest #128

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.-Yehuda AmichaiThe tea kettle doesn’t whistle, it screams. Vibrations of built up steam trying to escape through a narrow opening. Once my habit was to poise beside the stovetop, listening for the stirring of water, anticipating the alarm before it could occur. “It is like a g...

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“So it Begins” by Erin Olig

Submitted to Contest #127

Margo Lane knew she was destined for great things. She attributed her current situation to a series of unfortunate choices which had begun with the dating of two consecutive Ricks; both of whom had intrigued her with eclectic hobbies, such as the collection of vintage toys or beetle fighting. Both Ricks, subsequently turning out to just be weird and without redeeming qualities, started a domino effect of poor decisions which seemed to occur as a matter of course and outside her control. And while the new year found her...

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