Jenny Grinwis

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2021

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“The Other Side” by Jenny Grinwis

Submitted to Contest #105

You could have been a stranger, lying there, livery and inert. Yet, I know it was you; almost everything about you was familiar; known. The frame of you was the same: strong features, high forehead, wise eyes and gentle gaze; wide shoulders always ready to carry my world, but your long arms always loving, rested empty, listlessly, at your skeletal sides and your jaundiced skin hung on your bones, your face, drawn and gaunt, bearing the mask of an insidious cancer subduing its host. Your dark hair, always so perfectly slicked back – regal and...

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“The Librarian's Court” by Jenny Grinwis

Submitted to Contest #102

The Librarian’s Court – a mostly true; short-story by Jenny Grinwis Library-Mary was no Atticus Finch. She wasn’t – not if you mean that she spent her time shooting rabid dogs and being the moral defender of the Boo Radleys and Tom Robinsons of this world. No, she wasn’t Atticus Finch in that kind of sense. Mary was the moral defender of the library. One day, as a newcomer to our small town, I waited patiently to enroll myself and my four children to the self-same library, while Mary, on the other side of the book-returns counter was g...

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