Jennifer Taylor

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2022

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“Morticia Hill Mansion” by Jennifer Taylor

Submitted to Contest #217

Theo took his time ripping the skins off blanched tomato meat. It was his obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that made him lay them in a perfect row at the top of his wooden cutting board. It looked like a cross-sectional view of intestines that he had seen earlier in the day, a single layer of columnar epithelial cells, which made him giggle to himself.The fleshy part of the skins pressed against the wood, where it dehydrated and stuck like a Band-Aid, making it harder for his wife, Abbey to clean later in the evening....

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“Garden Purse” by Jennifer Taylor

Submitted to Contest #175

I grew up calling her, Sizzle, at least, that’s what the neighborhood kids called her. All I knew about Sizzle was that she had an open mailbox stuffed with soggy newspapers and somehow survived in a crumbly house above a garbage heap claimed by vultures and feral cats. It was clear to me how her name rendered from Cecile to Sizzle. She was baking in filth—a gingerbread woman with two mouse turd eyes and three hairball b...

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Author bio

Jen Taylor is a scientist and a writer with a background in neuroscience and immunology. She has 4 unfinished YA novels and only 1 publication. It's just a sentence in Writer's Digest. She hopes that writing short stories will give her momentum to complete one of her novels.