Jean Hines

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2021

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“First Year Blues” by Jean Hines

Submitted to Contest #89

I thought going off to college would be the answer for me. Pulling into the campus grounds, our little lemon car bouncing along the road up to the top of the hill, shaded by towering hemlocks and firs, I envisioned my first year like the naïve person I was. I saw myself writing poetry everywhere on the campus grounds, under sweeping boughs of sycamores and cherry blossoms. I saw myself making life-long friends in the first couple of weeks and acing all my classes, with a few bumps here and there. I saw myself doing all of that...

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“Nobody is Free” by Jean Hines

Submitted to Contest #88

A surge of familiarity strikes him when he looks at the boy in the glass. Behind the smudges of dirt and the scars that had puckered and healed since, he could recognize himself. He once used to be a prince. At least he thought he was. Looking down at his hands, then at himself in the glass, the day in question comes to him. What did he have to give up to get away? War-stricken, factions split up by politics, was his old country. Of course, he wouldn’t have known anything about that. Not until the beggar came to t...

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