Heidi Fedore

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2024

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“Cards by Proxy” by Heidi Fedore

Submitted to Contest #261

I can see Mom’s eyelids twitching, so she can hear me. She’s in my office, which serves as a guest room, lying on a hospital bed, bent at the knees and hips. I suspect she’s ignoring me for her reason du jour. I know she’s not dead. At least not yet. “Would you rather use the cards with flowers or the geometric shapes with Thank You imprinted on them?” I hold up each option as if she’s looking at them and say this as if she’s already agreed to write thank-you cards. With eyes still closed, she replies, “Neither.” “Okay, flowers it is since y...

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“Post Trauma, 2007: Love and War” by Heidi Fedore

Submitted to Contest #260

Candice blinked several times, trying to see the illuminated clock, which read 2:35 AM. A nightmare portraying her ex-boyfriend, Ken, plunging into the Puget Sound and feeling like she was plunging too had jolted her awake, gasping for air. She slid back under the covers and concentrated on square breathing, like a Navy Seal staying calm. Inhale for four, hold for four, exhale for four, hold for four. I’m okay. Ken is okay. I hope. She needed sleep; her alarm was due to chime at 5 AM and then she’d be on the road to Vancouver, Washington, tw...

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Author bio

Heidi was a high school English teacher for eleven years, assistant principal for six years and principal for twelve. In 2017, she was selected as a reader columnist for the News Tribune, and she has been a Pacific NW Writers’ Association contest reader since 2022. As of July 2022, she is retired and writes daily, including a monthly blog on fedorewriter.com.