Helen C

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2019

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“The Insider” by Helen C

Submitted to Contest #47

You just had to be brave today. You just had to go out of your apartment to go downstairs to the rows of silver mailboxes, get your little silver key out, and check the mail. It took you a good thirty seconds, braving the stares of your fellow apartment dwellers, whether these stares were real or imagined, to unjam all the accumulated ads and fliers and other junk mail that was wedged into the small cubicle reserved for your incoming post and dump it into a plastic shopping bag, the contents of which you would quickly examine when you got ba...

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“King of the Petty Thieves” by Helen C

Submitted to Contest #18

"I'm going to have a rum and Coke," Jacob Deleon announced to his living room, empty of all souls except for his and that of a small gray tabby cat dozing on the sofa next to him. He could afford to get a little loose and celebrate some, tomorrow was payday, the day he made the rounds of his usual pawn shops and swapped out the gold trinkets he had nabbed that week for cash. This used to be as daunting a task as stealing the jewelry itself had been, but Jacob, or Jay, as he introduced himself when necessary, was a well seasoned veteran...

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Author bio

I've wanted to be a writer since before I could write, I used to get my mom to staple papers together in book form for me and I'd fill them with E's, the only letter I knew back then. If I'd known how hard writing is, I wonder if I would have picked something else. Now I'm 55 and still a beginner after having spent a lot of time just surviving. I have won two small contests, but not here, the writers at Reedsy are plentiful and full of talent.