Gavin Croghan

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2020

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“Pivoting ” by Gavin Croghan

Submitted to Contest #54

I still didn’t know why I had come to the hotel. There was little I needed. Married women weren’t meant to sit in hotel lobbies flicking through out-of-date magazines. Waiting on men they weren’t married to. However, the stories in those magazines reminded me of my youth. And of my predicament. They too were stories out of their time. Stale and left aside. Told once and then never do we find what came of them. I used to read my mother’s old issues. I’d sit in the kitchen under the table. She’d cook and talk with my aunts. Conver...

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“...with kindness.” by Gavin Croghan

Submitted to Contest #26

She’d always wanted to see the promenade in spring, but we are getting ahead of ourselves. We still had a long drive to Riverside and to Turner’s way.This is where ‘the promenade’ sits. The only one that mattered. The one by her grandmother’s second home.Where she’d read old books in oak rocking chairs between stories of her father’s father or how growing up here felt.Most pleasant were her father’s stories of Turner’s way in the springtime. The annual porch parties were about to start. The award-winning flowers would be blooming in time for...

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