Jennifer Sadera

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2022

Stories (1)

1 Story

17 karma pts

?

“Beautiful” by Jennifer Sadera

Submitted to Contest #161

Gwen’s office looked appropriately generic. Beige walls, gray tweed sofa, and dark wooden chairs. No family photos or interesting artwork to distract clients.     She indicated the couch with a head bob, and I hurried toward it, pausing only when I saw the box of tissues on the glass end table, a puffy white sheet protruding from the gray cardboard top like an outstretched hand, offering to absorb and conceal my outpourings within its velvety folds. I pressed my lips together. Pitiful that a mere symbol of comfort could t...

2 comments 2
Read story

Author bio

Former copywriter at book publisher NAL, magazine editor at Redbook and Woman’s World, free-lance writer and blogger. Fellowship at Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Conference; twice won Best Manuscript Sample at Atlanta Writers’ Conference. Member of International Thriller Writers