Felice Noelle

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2021

Stories (5)

5 Stories

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“UKRAINE in the Time of Rusalki (So We Don't Forget)” by Felice Noelle

Submitted to Contest #149

Ukraine in the Time of Rusalki(So We Don’t Forget)(The rusalka of the Ukrainian songs are derived from ancient magical incantations that were supposed to secure a rich harvest or attract a lover to a girl. More recent songs often have a love plot in which an abandoned girl is transformed into a poplar, a young wife is poisoned by her mother-in-law, or a young bride commits suicide to escape from a repugnant husband.)It’s June, the time of the year in which the rusalki were believed to be at their most dangerous. At this time, they were suppo...

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“Soul Sipped Not Sucked” by Felice Noelle

Submitted to Contest #144

Soul Sipped Not Sucked“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”The detectives enter the house through the front door when no one answers the doorbell or their incessant knocking. The one in charge snaps a picture to document the condition of the possible crime scene. Click! They continue on into the dark silence."What the hell...it was ...

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“Children of the Earth: Volume in The Book of Evil” by Felice Noelle

Submitted to Contest #142

Children of the Earth: Volume in The Book of EvilIt's a book about the history of the world and mankind. Here, read it, see for yourself. But first I'll need to warn you...Evil is unspectacular and always human and shares our bed and eats at our own table.Evil writes these tales in blood and tears, leaving behind devastation and chaos. It inscribes on the tender surface of the human heart and carves into the delicate tissues of the human brain, spreading dissension, fear, and devastation, leaving a trail of shattered lives and broken hearts....

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“I'M BREAKING UP WITH JEFF BEZOS” by Felice Noelle

Submitted to Contest #139

I'M BREAKING UP WITH JEFF BEZOSI confess. Jeff Bezos knows me more intimately than my husband does. But don't tell his ex-wife. And I haven't been able to hide it from my husband. No, I swear, it's true. Couldn't be more true. Jeff and I communicate more frequently, more personally, and just MORE than I communicate with any other human on this Covid confined planet.I can't just punch a delete button on my keyboard and wipe my order and return history out of my life like I can with my Google browsing history. So I have left a telling, shamefu...

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“The Circle of Life with Scarlet and Rhett v. Bonnie and Clyde” by Felice Noelle

Submitted to Contest #135

(Violence trigger if Mother Nature can be accused of such in the animal kingdom)With an ominous thwack and a sloshy swish, the Florida 'gator crushes the unwitting flamingo in its strong hinged jaws, dragging it deep under the murky water. In the age-old dance, the flamingo struggles, thrashing wildly about, aiming its sharp talons at an impervious hide, shrieking into the deafening air. The silvery ladyfish drops from it beak to fall back into the muck and swims off, leaving a bloody trail. The exhausted flamingo breathes its last and succu...

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Author bio

I am a lifelong teacher, preschool through university level, but always a learner. I love stories, for what is life but a series of stories strung together. My family is comprised of enough children and grandchildren to constitute our own United Nations, all living in relative harmony...or aspiring to. I was fated to be a reader and people watcher, so the next step was to be a writer, a teller of stories. Luckily I found my way to Reedsy and this fantastical cadre. I will read and continue to learn from you all.