Honey Bates

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2022

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“At Our Round Glass Table” by Honey Bates

Submitted to Contest #155

I am having a hard time writing as I sit here at the kitchen table. I am not in a writing mood.Sometimes, here at the kitchen table, I have been in a spectacular writing mood. I sat here with my Dell computer on middle school summer vacations and seventh-grade half-days, typing away as I ran my hands over the rhinestoned computer back, tapped my fingers on the tabletop. I stayed up until the house was dark and still and my eyes were sore and dry, immersed in the swings and roundabouts of imagination. I was going to write a famous book that s...

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“The Neopolitan House” by Honey Bates

Submitted to Contest #153

Warning: swearingThe first thing Bora noticed when she parked her little car in the condo driveway was that the house looked like a very strange Neapolitan sandwich.In more precise terms, it was painted in three segments. The left third of the house glared a neon green, while the right third burned a hot pink. The middle third wasn’t any color at all: just a plain gray, squeezed by the blinding opposite paints on either side.Bora stared for a second. Then she turned off the car and shrugged to herself. I guess, she thought as she stroll...

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