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Iris Griffin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2024

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Arrowhead Grass and River Gods

When I was little, my family used to go to bluegrass music jams and drum circles at the river every week. It was free entertainment for our sore lot of bare feet and it made us feel wealthy, despite living on food stamps and borrowed time. The men in charge of the music had a habit of scheduling the Jams for the hottest days in the armpit of summer. It’d be 100 degrees at 6 O'clock in the evening, and the musicians would still play red faced and sweating, and people would still walk from their homes to dance on blistered feet. There were g...

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Alex and Jared

Submitted to Contest #259

When Jared Hayes was born on an early February morning in 2003 - Alex Hayes became a brother. His first thought about Jared – and babies as a whole population, was that they looked weird, and too squishy to be real.  Second, he decided Jared should never feel alone in the dark, at least not on his watch. ….  When Jared was 8, Alex made him take the training wheels off his bike. He wanted to teach him how to ride like a teenager, a pro. After a few false starts, Jared made enough progress to carve nebulous, timid paths into the...

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