Jamie DelSole

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

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“Like Talking to a Tombstone” by Jamie DelSole

Submitted to Contest #221

LIKE TALKING TO A TOMBSTONE            Clarice stood at the entrance of the cemetery and appraised it before walking in. This was her favorite entrance: the historical section. In the early evening chill, just before dark, there was a low fog on the ground. The worn, gray tombstones stickling up out of the ground looked like skyscrapers sticking up out of clouds, or what Clarice thought they would look like. That Spivy girl who had her own horse and whose father w...

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“GUNS AND ROSEWATER” by Jamie DelSole

Submitted to Contest #151

GUNS AND ROSEWATER The officer stationed behind the desk at the court house annex noticed when the car came slowly past the plate glass window of the lobby and past the only two empty parking spaces, drove fruitlessly to the end of the lot, which had no outlet, performed a 12 point turnaround, and headed back toward the front of the building. The car pulled into one of the two spaces, which happened to be the only handicapped space available. The car was large and sturdy, not new but well kept. No radical bumper stickers that set...

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Author bio

I joined the US Air Force right out of high school and wrote - a bit. I married and reared children and wrote - a bit. I attended writing workshops and wrote - a bit. I retired from a bank and wrote - a bit. I started a new antique business, became a jewelry appraiser, and wrote - a bit. Then an inherited mitochondrial chromosome conspired with some universal time clock and took away my energy and strength and other physical resources and I began to write - more. My bits added up to publication in MAD Magazine, Outdoor Life, Southern Living, Crescent Review, Minerva Living, and a few others I can’t remember, over a long span. What will my ‘more’ add up to? We shall see. It won’t be as long a span. I don’t write about the trials of the world. I’m old and I’ve lived them and fought them and written letters about them and marched for and against them. Now I’m interested in our relationships and identities. How we see ourselves and others, how our small identities cause greater impact to the world. I believe, after all, that’s the nuclei of the world, both the building blocks and the stumbling stones.