Greg Madden

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2022

Stories (4)

4 Stories

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“Enchildas” by Greg Madden

Submitted to Contest #228

Enchiladas My family, the Clarks, lived three miles outside the small town of Lebanon in southwest Ohio, and the only ethnic food choice there was Italian. Because of the expense of feeding four children, we rarely dined out, so it wouldn’t have made a difference if an international food court had been a block away. On Sunday afternoon after church, our neighbors ate a typical midwestern dinner that featured baked ham or roast beef with sides of mashed potatoes, green or lima beans, and sometimes fresh corn on the cob. But not my family. ...

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“The Unintentional Seed” by Greg Madden

Submitted to Contest #161

I grew up 3 miles west of Muscatine, Iowa. Most people have never heard of Muscatine and have no clue where it's at until they're told it's 200 hundred miles west of Chicago. I never met my grandparents. What little I know is from stories my dad told me. My grandparents, Jesse and Mary Mason, owned a 100-acre farm in the 1930s. Jesse Mason grew up in Harlan, Kentucky, with 3 older brothers. He quit school at 15 to work in the coal mines alongside his brothers and father. Jesse and 2 of his brothers, Bill and John, volunteered for the ...

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“Allison” by Greg Madden

Submitted to Contest #161

We were happily married for seven years before Allison gave me the big news that she was eight weeks pregnant. It should have been a celebrated day. We were in our late twenties, and I had just become the team leader of the IT Applications Support group at my company, Royal Labels. Other than playing basketball twice a week at the YMCA, I was home reading a book or watching TV. Allison worked at Lebanon Premier Hospital as an x-ray technician. Except for a rare weekend shift or covering after-hours emergencies for our jobs, we were usually h...

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“Proud Fathers” by Greg Madden

Submitted to Contest #159

John Mason’s wife dropped her husband off at John Mason Auto Body Repair at 7:30 am on her way to her admin job three miles away. Four hours later, John studied his watch and knew his son, Randy, would arrive in the next 30 minutes at noon. The boy wasn’t always the best worker, but he was dependable. Randy was a senior at Lebanon High School and got out of classes at 10:16. He worked Monday through Friday afternoons at his father’s auto repair shop. He washed cars, picked up parts and supplies, swept the floor, and cleaned the restroom. It ...

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