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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020
Submitted to Contest #43
I was a nine year old boy growing up on a prairie farm in the 1950s. My mother was sick so my grandmother came to take care of her but she did not have much time for me. My father was a farmer busy trying to get his fields ready and his crops planted so he didn’t have time for me either. I was lonely and scared. I was afraid something terrible was going to happen to my mother and no one would talk to me about it. They all thought I was too young to understand what was going on. My father decided he needed help on the farm so he placed a...
Submitted to Contest #31
It was a glorious spring day! The birds had formed a choir and were singing a cantata to the Creator. The sun shone in brilliant waves of joy and the breeze ruffled ones hair with gladness!            Sibbyll, a golden brown and white puppy of indeterminate heritage was ready to go out to play! “Just a minute Sibby! I’ve got to find my shoes!” Magda tried to explain the delay. Magda was short of stature and small boned. Her blond hair was in a short bob, short enough that it couldn’t be ...
Farmer's wife, mother of three, grandmother of four.
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