Franny Behrman

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

Stories (3)

3 Stories

49 karma pts

?

“HornSight” by Franny Behrman

Submitted to Contest #51

Unya startled awake. The knobbly horn on her forehead was throbbing uncomfortably. Unya passed her hand lightly over the horn, and as she did so, a sinking feeling clenched her stomach, the familiar sinking feeling of knowing, with the dark but absolute certainty of HornSight, that her mother, Cyra, at this moment, was leading the women of Xevia into battle beneath the bright and familiar banner of The Horned Queen. Horn...

0 comments 0
Read story

“Until We Meet Again” by Franny Behrman

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #32

I don't even know that he's there until I hear his voice behind me, ordering a cup of tea (lemon, no sugar) as I pay for my coffee (black). After all these years, his voice, even when he is not speaking to me, changes everything in my body. First, I tingle, as if a charge of light has gone through me, and then every muscle relaxes, as if I have just come home and have nothing to do but eat soft food and sleep. And finally, something deep inside me smiles. I turn my head and catch his eye, and I know that something deep inside of him is sm...

0 comments 0
Read story

“In the Mother Part of My Mother's Heart” by Franny Behrman

Submitted to Contest #11

This story is too dark for childhood, but I tell it anyway. “Get out!” She has me up against the wall, in the kitchen, right by the refrigerator, and is shaking my shoulders. “And don’t come back.” Later, she will say she never said it, but I remember. Why do I remember it so clearly----the way you only remember the few moments that truly changed your life forever--- if she never said it? I had never thought it would come to this. Maybe no true child ...

0 comments 0
Read story

Author bio

Franny Behrman has not written a bio yet!

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #32
Until We Meet Again – read story